I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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