Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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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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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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One must live well to know what living is.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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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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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 first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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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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