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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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