Bertolt Brecht Quotes on Power
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.
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For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Don't rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world stood up and stopped the Bastard, the Bitch that bore him is in heat again.