When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Right is its own defense.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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