Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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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.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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