Bertolt Brecht

Poet

German Empire

1898 - 1956

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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Bertolt Brecht
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Bertolt Brecht
Right is its own defense.
Bertolt Brecht
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Bertolt Brecht
It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
Bertolt Brecht
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht
War is like love; it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Bertolt Brecht
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht