I am sorry they won't let you have your sloop again, for I scorn to do any one a mischief, when it is not to my advantage; damn the sloop, we must sink her, and she might be of use to you. Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security; for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by knavery; but damn ye altogether: damn them for a pack of crafty rascals, and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls. They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference, they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. Had you not better make then one of us, than sneak after these villains for employment?
I never tire of that one...
"To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated."
BeantwoordenVerwijderen- Bertolt Brecht, "On Politics and Society"
“…What is a pick-lock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?…”
- Bertolt Brecht, "Threepenny Novel" (1934)
“…There is a great difference between Rothschild’s methods of getting control of a bank and an ordinary bank robbery. Everybody knows that. But I’ve learned this much: only those who go in for really big crimes can commit lesser ones without being caught. And people take full advantage of the fact.”
- Bertolt Brecht, "Threepenny Novel" (1934)