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“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Art #Reality #Mirrors
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Happiness #Happy #High Heels
“Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Life #Death #Anticipation
“People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Fighting #People #May
“The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Hurt #Rain #Fall
“Everyone needs help from everyone.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Needs #Helping #Environment
“Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Wise #Poverty #Curse
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Moving On #Wisdom #Mistake
“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Book #Men #Weapons
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Change #Moving On #Stay Strong
“If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Fighting #Might #Lost
“War is like love, it always finds a way.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Life #War #Way
“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. 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.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Crush #Powerful #Men
“He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Fighting #Lost
“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Wisdom #Science #Errors
“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. 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 Brecht

#Summer #Rain #Fall
“To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Fire #Doe #World
“Don't tell me peace has broken out.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Peace #Broken
“There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Struggle #Men #Years
“To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Mean #Finesse #Process
“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.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Crush #Powerful #Men
“Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Wisdom #Mistake #Wine
“Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Sweet #Musical #Schoenberg
“...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Simplicity #Difficult
“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Fall #People #Faces
“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#War #Communication #Media
“None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive
“From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Fun #People #Theatre
“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Wise #Poverty #Wells
“People who understand everything get no stories.”
-- Bertolt Brecht

#People #Stories

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