For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
BERTOLT BRECHTScience knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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The fate of man is man.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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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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