“Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.”

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

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.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

The fate of man is man.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.