From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen you name yourself, you always name another.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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But something’s missing.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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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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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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