Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
BERTOLT BRECHTImpact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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