For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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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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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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