Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnfortunate the country that needs heroes!
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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