For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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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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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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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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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 aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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