One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
BERTOLT BRECHTScience knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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The fate of man is man.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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