What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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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.
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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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