Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Right is its own defense.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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