Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
BERTOLT BRECHTNone will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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Right is its own defense.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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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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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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