A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
BERTOLT BRECHTI’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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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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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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