Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHTEven hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Firebugs 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.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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