When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTNowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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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 finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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