Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The fate of man is man.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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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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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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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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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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