Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who understand everything get no stories.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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