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 war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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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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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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