Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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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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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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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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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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