Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
BERTOLT BRECHTShow them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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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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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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