Bertolt Brecht - War Quotes

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Yes, we went, as often changing countries as changing shoes
Through the wars of the classes, despairing
Each time we found an abuse, and no sense of outrage.

Bertolt Brecht
Events cast long shadows before.
One such event would be a war.
But how are shadows to be seen
When total darkness fills the screen?

Bertolt Brecht
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles
Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin.
And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow
To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat,
Provided he loves peace,
Is a greater lover of the arts
Than any so-called art-lover
Who loves the arts of war.

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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.

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Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

Bertolt Brecht
One observes, they have gone too long without a war here. Where is morality to come from in such a case, I ask? Peace is nothing but slovenliness, only war creates order.

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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

Bertolt Brecht
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

Bertolt Brecht