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One Quotes by 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…
- To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
- Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
- No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
- Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
- There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
- 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…
- One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
- If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.
- The righteous one has no sense of humor.
- Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more…
- When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
- 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…
- One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
- What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
- The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There…
- General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.…
- Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable…
- One must live well to know what living is.
- It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster