Everyone needs help from everyone.
BERTOLT BRECHTFrom the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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