“General, man is very useful.
He can fly and he can kill.
But he has one defect:
He can think.”

—  Bertolt Brecht

"General, Your Tank Is a Powerful Vehicle", in "From a German War Primer", part of the Svendborg Poems (1939); as translated by Lee Baxandall in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 289
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)

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