Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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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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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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