In the contradiction lies the hope.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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