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 BRECHTThose against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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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Only bad generals need heroes.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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