The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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