The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTNowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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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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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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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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