None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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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 don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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