If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
BERTOLT BRECHTSometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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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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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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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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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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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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In 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.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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