Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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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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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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