You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHTGrub first, then ethics.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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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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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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