General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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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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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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