There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHTLiterary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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