Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
BERTOLT BRECHTShow them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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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 mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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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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Grub first, then ethics.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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