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 BRECHTWhen crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
-
-
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
First the pork chops, then morality
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHT -
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHT