The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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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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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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