WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 15 May 2026 22:39:56 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg agent – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Brecht, Bertholt -- “General, Your Tank Is a Powerful Vehicle,” in “From a German War Primer,” The Svendborg Poems (1939) [tr. Baxandall] https://wist.info/brecht-berthold/31800/ https://wist.info/brecht-berthold/31800/#respond Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:44:28 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=31800 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.


Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, director, dramaturgist
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Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
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