It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
BERTOLT BRECHTOh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
BERTOLT BRECHTFor art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHTOh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t tell me peace has broken out.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
BERTOLT BRECHTCome in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe 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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