The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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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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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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 a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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