You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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 fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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