People who understand everything get no stories.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirebugs 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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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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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. 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 is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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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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