People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s never too late for those whose time has come.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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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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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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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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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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