When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTSometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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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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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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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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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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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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