Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
BERTOLT BRECHTTerrible is the temptation to be good.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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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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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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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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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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