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.
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.
fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
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