Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHTI Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When 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.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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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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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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