QUOTES by Bertolt Brecht
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"And you i beg make not your anger manifest. For all that lives needs help from all the rest."
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"You who will emerge from the flood In which we have gone under Remember When you speak of our failings The dark time too Which you have escaped"
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"Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"!"
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"I hope I can pull the wagon by myself. Yes, I'll manage, there's not much in it now. I must get back into business."
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"Proof seduces them. One of the greatest pleasures of the human race is thinking."
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"It is many years ago and at times I know nothing about her anymore who was once all things to me but all things pass. (The Eleventh Psalm)"
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"Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero! No, Andrea....unhappy is the land that needs a hero."
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"THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction."
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"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."
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"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, prologue (1944)."
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"A Man lives off his head. His head won't see him through. Inspect your own— What lives on that? At most, a louse or two . . ."
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"For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age."
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"Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it."
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"When the Chinese Wall was built, where'd the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquered Gaul, was there not even a cook in the army? When the Armada sank, King Philip wept. Were there no other tears?"
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"All the world says: yes we know what’s written in the books but now let’s see what our eyes tell us."
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"In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at the house-painter’s speeches. But only the second Drives me to my desk."
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"The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting truth, but to set a limit on everlasting error."
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"The rope has been torn; a knot Can tie it again, but It’s been torn. Perhaps we’ll meet again, but You won’t find me In the place where we parted ways."
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"What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?"
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"He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy."
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"I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better."
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"In the dark times will there be singing? Yes. There will be singing about the dark times."
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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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"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"
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"For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."
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"The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won't be stolen from under you!"
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"When the waters poured into Atlantis, the rich men still screamed for their slaves."
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"Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers."
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"I want to go with the one I love. I do not want to calculate the cost. I do not want to think about whether it's good. I do not want to know whether he loves me. I want to go with whom I love..."
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