General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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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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The 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.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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