Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHTFrom the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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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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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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