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 BRECHTHe who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Right is its own defense.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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