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.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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