The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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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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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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