Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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But something’s missing.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Right is its own defense.
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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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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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