Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
BERTOLT BRECHTWriters can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
BERTOLT BRECHT…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
BERTOLT BRECHTReality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe 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 BRECHTA 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThose who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
BERTOLT BRECHTShow 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
BERTOLT BRECHTThe worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
BERTOLT BRECHTAll artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
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