The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
BERTOLT BRECHTSometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
-
-
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
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.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
BERTOLT BRECHT -
When you name yourself, you always name another.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
BERTOLT BRECHT -
The 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.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
BERTOLT BRECHT -
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHT