Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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