Right is its own defense.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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