People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTBank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
-
-
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
People who understand everything get no stories.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHT