There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Life is short and so is money.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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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.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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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 headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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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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