Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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.
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