The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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