The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
BERTOLT BRECHTA theater without beer is just a museum
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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