Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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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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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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