Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
BERTOLT BRECHTThe world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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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Right is its own defense.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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 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 shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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