Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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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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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Eats first, morals after.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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