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More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
In the contradiction lies the hope.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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.
