You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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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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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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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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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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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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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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