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More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
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.
If you join the rat race you're in the race of rats.
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
