Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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The fate of man is man.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Eats first, morals after.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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