First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is the wish to give, not to receive.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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The fate of man is man.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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