 | Thomas Scanlon, Richard B. Brandt - 1974 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...reasons: but can he then 13. Compare the following lines from Bertold Brecht's poem "To Posterity": "Alas, we/ Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness/ Could not ourselves be kind . . ." ( Selected Poems, trans. HR Hays (New York, 1969], p. 177). This is more of an excuse, less... | |
 | Howard L. Parsons - 1979 - عدد الصفحات: 224
...overtaken by the inhuman values of warring itself. Even anger against injustice Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness Could not ourselves be kind.48 Whatever the human ideal may be, the fact is that men have ameliorated or eradicated injustice... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1983 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...exhausting it is to be evil. —"The Mask of Evil" But his most poignant words are "To Posterity": "Alas, we / Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness / Could not ourselves be kind." On the last night in Berlin, Betty, Ted, Russ, and I celebrated with a light heart. I learned long... | |
 | Dennis Hume Wrong - عدد الصفحات: 356
...insufficient because, for Brecht at least, the eventual triumph of the Communist Party remains a means: 'Alas, we who wished to lay the foundations of kindness could not ourselves be kind'. For the full-fledged totalitarian, the collective power of the movement or organization is itself his... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...hatred of squalor Makes the brow grow stern. Even anger against injustice Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness Could not ourselves be kind. Bertolt Brecht Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster.... | |
 | Robert Lawson Brawley - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...wir Die wir den Boden bereiten wollten fur Freundlichkeit Konnten selber nicht freundlich sein. .... Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness Could not ourselves be kind." NOTES 1 . Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer, Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 348
...desocialization. It is a belief differing markedly from that of the committed revolutionary who is convinced that "Alas, we who wished to lay the foundations of kindness could not ourselves be kind" (Brecht), or who, like Sartre's Hoederer in Les Mains Sales, argues that humanity can only be saved... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...123-152. 11 Hamlet 3.4.178. 12 Compare the following lines from Bertold Brecht's poem "To Posterity": "Alas, we/ Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness/ Could not ourselves be kind . . ." (Selected Poems, trans. HR Hays [New York, 1969], p. 177). This is more of an excuse, less of... | |
 | Georgi Dimitrov - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 583
...wir / Die wir den Boden bereiten wollten für Freundlichkeit / Konnten selber nicht freundlich sein" (Alas, we / Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness / Could not ourselves be kind).43 Brecht's plea that the revolutionary generation not be judged too harshly should be read in... | |
 | Janja Lalich - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...to do it. We lived by the words in that famous Brecht poem, you know . . ." And she began to recite Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness...kind. But you, when at last it comes to pass That man can help his fellow man, Do not judge us Too harshly.2 Then she sighed and said, "That justifies... | |
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For we knew only too well: Even the hatred of squalor Makes the brow grow stern. Even anger against injustice Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness Could not ourselves be kind. 
