Only bad generals need heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTAs regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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