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.
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
Accept everything just the way it is.
The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.
It is precisely womenβs experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.
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