…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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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.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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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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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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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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