Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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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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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Don’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.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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