There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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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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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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