Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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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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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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