You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
BERTOLT BRECHTMixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
-
-
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!
BERTOLT BRECHT -
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.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Temptation to behave is terrible.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
BERTOLT BRECHT -
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Why be a man when you can be a success?
BERTOLT BRECHT -
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
BERTOLT BRECHT