Bertolt Brecht on history

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler1889–1945

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman1884–1972