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.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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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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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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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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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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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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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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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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