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> [Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/unhappiness-doesn-t-grow-on-the-chest-like-leprosy-poverty-won-t-fall/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/the-worst-illiterate-is-the-political-illiterate-he-hears-nothing/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

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## Other authors on Chests

## More by Bertolt Brecht

> [Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/their-peace-and-their-war-are-like-wind-and-storm-war-grows-from/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [Boy Meets Girl, So What?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/boy-meets-girl-so-what/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/some-party-hack-decreed-that-the-people-had-lost-the-government-s/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/art-is-not-a-mirror-held-up-to-reality-but-a-hammer-with-which-to/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/people-remain-what-they-are-even-if-their-faces-fall-apart/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/go-make-yourself-a-plan-and-be-a-shining-light-then-make-yourself-a/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/fearful-is-the-seductive-power-of-goodness/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/hungry-man-reach-for-the-book-it-is-a-weapon/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/there-are-some-with-brains-and-some-without-it-makes-for-a-better/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [“When the sharks the sharks devour Little fishes have their hour.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/when-the-sharks-the-sharks-devour-little-fishes-have-their-hour/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/in-my-poetry-a-rhyme-would-seem-to-me-almost-insolent-inside-me/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [“The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/the-law-was-made-for-one-thing-alone-for-the-exploitation-of-those/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/from-the-start-it-has-been-the-theatre-s-business-to-entertain-people/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/whenever-there-are-great-virtues-it-s-a-sure-sign-something-s-wrong/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

> [First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/first-feed-the-face-then-talk-right-and-wrong/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

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