The righteous one has no sense of humor.
BERTOLT BRECHTNever believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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 human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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