Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
BERTOLT BRECHTWould it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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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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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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