He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Right is its own defense.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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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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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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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First the grub, then the morals.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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