What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?Bertolt Brecht: The Threepenny Opera
Help
You can only help one of your luckless brothers By trampling down a dozen others. Bertolt Brecht: The Good Woman of Setzuan
Heroism
ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! . . . GALILEO: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.Bertolt Brecht: Life of Galileo
Plans
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.Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage
Poverty
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.Bertolt Brecht: The Threepenny Opera
Victory and Defeat
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage
Virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage
War
War is like love, it always finds a way.Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage
