Bertolt Brecht Quote

For the task assigned them
Men aren't smart enough or sly
Any rogue can blind them
With a clever lie.


Polly Peachum, in "The Song of the Futility of All Human Endeavor"; Act 3, scene 1, p. 75 - The Threepenny Opera (1928)


For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.