Bertolt Brecht Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Lying, Writing

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Galileo”, p.133, Grove Press

• Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Lying, Criminals, Doe

• 　When the leaders speak of peace
  　The common folk know
  　That war is coming
  　When the leaders curse war
  　The mobilization order is already written out. 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.
  　

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Lying, Common Folk

• In the contradiction lies the hope.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Lying, Contradiction

• Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Mistake, Lying, Impact

• For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Clever, Smart, Lying

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.75, Grove Press

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