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 BRECHTYou don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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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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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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