Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhy be a man when you can be a success?
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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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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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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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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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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