…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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