General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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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.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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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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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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