General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHTSome party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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