None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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