As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Some 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?
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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