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.
BERTOLT BRECHTNone will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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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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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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