Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can make a fresh start with your final breath.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Right is its own defense.
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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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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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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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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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