When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTTerrible is the temptation to be good.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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