We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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 BRECHTWho built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHTNowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
BERTOLT BRECHTWould it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
BERTOLT BRECHTBank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHTBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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