What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTIf art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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