We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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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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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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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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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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