The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
BERTOLT BRECHTI am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
BERTOLT BRECHTFearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s never too late for those whose time has come.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
BERTOLT BRECHTWar is like love, it always finds a way.
BERTOLT BRECHTWould it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHTOnly bad generals need heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTLet nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
BERTOLT BRECHTThe war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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