Common Quote by Bertolt Brecht Download Open image “When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.” — Bertolt Brecht ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common folk Folks Knows Leader Leadership Peace Speak War
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order is already… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war? — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“If others are going to make war; we celebrate peace and love.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that a nation… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share 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… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“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… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
