Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTOf all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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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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A theater without beer is just a museum
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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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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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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