The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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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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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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