Why be a man when you can be a success?
BERTOLT BRECHTSometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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The 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.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Eats first, morals after.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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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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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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