The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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