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More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
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.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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.
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.
