For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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