It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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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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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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