Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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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 aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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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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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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