The fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHTScience knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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