The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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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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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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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