Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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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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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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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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