The more we can squeeze out of nature by inventions and discoveries and improved organization of labour, the more uncertain our existence seems to be. It's not we who lord it over things, it seems, but things which lord it over us.


The Messingkauf Dialogues, The Second Night, the Philosopher's Speech About Our Period (p. 42), Methuen. 1965

Bertolt Brecht Quotes

The more we can squeeze out of nature by inventions and discoveries and improved organization of labour, the more uncertain our existence seems to...

The more we can squeeze out of nature by inventions and discoveries and improved organization of labour, the more uncertain our existence seems to...

The more we can squeeze out of nature by inventions and discoveries and improved organization of labour, the more uncertain our existence seems to...

The more we can squeeze out of nature by inventions and discoveries and improved organization of labour, the more uncertain our existence seems to...