You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
BERTOLT BRECHTNone will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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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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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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