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More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
If you join the rat race you're in the race of rats.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
If you don't have fun, you don't have a show.
In the contradiction lies the hope.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.
The 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. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.
