There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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