Quote

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bertolt Brecht
Age: 58 †
Born: 1898
Born: February 10
Died: 1956
Died: August 14
Author
Director
Film Director
Librettist
Literary Critic
Lyricist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
Kreisfreie Stadt Augsburg
Berŭtʻoltʻŭ Bŭrehitʻŭ
Pertōl Pirekcṭ
Mpertolt Mprecht
Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe
Pertōlṭ Pirekcṭ
Perṭōlṭ Pireṣṭ
Bertolt Breht
Bert Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
Bertholt Brecht
Bertolʹd Brekht
Bertolʹt Brekht
Brecht
Bertold Brecht
B. Brekht
Bŭrehitʻŭ
Pei-tʻo-erh-tʻe Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe
Ought
Actually
Nothing
Littleness
Always
Emperor
Ruined
Finest
Carry
Plans

More quotes by Bertolt Brecht

Image
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
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.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
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. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
Life is short and so is money.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?
Bertolt Brecht
Image
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
Bertolt Brecht
Image
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
Bertolt Brecht
Image
It's never too late for those whose time has come.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
Bertolt Brecht
Image
Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
Bertolt Brecht