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More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.
In the contradiction lies the hope.
If you join the rat race you're in the race of rats.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.