When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who understand everything get no stories.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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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 aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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Those 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.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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