War is like love, it always finds a way.
Interpretation
War and love are both inevitable forces that will manifest despite obstacles.
The quote by Bertolt Brecht suggests that both war and love are powerful, uncontrollable forces in human life. Just as love has a way of prevailing and overcoming challenges, war, too, will always find a way to emerge, no matter the circumstances or the efforts to suppress it. It highlights the complexity of human emotions and conflicts, illustrating how deeply intertwined passion and conflict are in our existence.
In practice
In a speech about human resilience, one could use this quote to emphasize how strong emotions drive human actions.
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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 musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
God is best known in not knowing him.
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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