General, 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTTerrible is the temptation to be good.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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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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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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