One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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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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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Grub first, then ethics.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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