When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
BERTOLT BRECHTI don’t trust him. We’re friends.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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