Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn the contradiction lies the hope.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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