General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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