Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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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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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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The fate of man is man.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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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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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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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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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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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Right is its own defense.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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