Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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