Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
— Bertolt Brecht
A theater without beer is just a museum
— Bertolt Brecht
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
— Bertolt Brecht
It's never too late for those whose time has come.
— Bertolt Brecht
Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
— Bertolt Brecht
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
— Bertolt Brecht
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
— Bertolt Brecht
NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
— Bertolt Brecht
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels — Bertolt Brecht
When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
— Bertolt Brecht
He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy.
— Bertolt Brecht
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
— Bertolt Brecht
For once you must try not to shirk the facts:Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. — Bertolt Brecht
Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.
— Bertolt Brecht
I'm teaching all the time. When am I to learn?
— Bertolt Brecht
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
— Bertolt Brecht
When you name yourself, you always name another.
— Bertolt Brecht
The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won't be stolen from under you!
— Bertolt Brecht
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.
— Bertolt Brecht
A Man lives off his head.His head won't see him through.
Inspect your own
What lives on that?
At most, a louse or two ... — Bertolt Brecht
Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.
— Bertolt Brecht
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
— Bertolt Brecht
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
— Bertolt Brecht
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
— Bertolt Brecht
As soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world,it means that we have abandoned all attempts to understanding it.
— Bertolt Brecht
As crimes pile up, they become invisible.
— Bertolt Brecht
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
— Bertolt Brecht
It is many years ago and at times I know nothing about her anymore who was once all things to me but all things pass. (The Eleventh Psalm)
— Bertolt Brecht
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
— Bertolt Brecht
The river that everything drags is known as violent, but nobody calls violent the margins that arrest him.
— 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
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
— Bertolt Brecht
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.
— Bertolt Brecht
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
— Bertolt Brecht
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
— Bertolt Brecht
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
— Bertolt Brecht
Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man.
Who paid the bill? — Bertolt Brecht
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
— Bertolt Brecht
For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
— Bertolt Brecht
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
— Bertolt Brecht
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
— 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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
— Bertolt Brecht
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 Brecht
Right is its own defense.
— Bertolt Brecht
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
— Bertolt Brecht
People who understand everything get no stories.
— Bertolt Brecht
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life
— Bertolt Brecht
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
— Bertolt Brecht
The fate of man is man.
— Bertolt Brecht
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.
— Bertolt Brecht
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
— Bertolt Brecht
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
— Bertolt Brecht
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
— Bertolt Brecht
Why be a man when you can be a success.
— Bertolt Brecht
The headlong stream is termed violentBut the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
— Bertolt Brecht
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
— Bertolt Brecht
It is simplicity that is difficult to make.
— Bertolt Brecht
In the contradiction lies the hope.
— Bertolt Brecht
Would it not be simpler If the Government Dissolved the people And elected another?
— Bertolt Brecht
Think with feeling
— Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
— Bertolt Brecht
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
— Bertolt Brecht
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
— Bertolt Brecht
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
— Bertolt Brecht
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
— Bertolt Brecht
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
— Bertolt Brecht
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
— Bertolt Brecht
WeaknessesYou had none
I had one:
I loved. — Bertolt Brecht
It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.
— Bertolt Brecht
For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you.
— Bertolt Brecht
I don't trust him. We're friends.
— Bertolt Brecht
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
— Bertolt Brecht
What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors? — Bertolt Brecht
Grub first, then ethics.
— Bertolt Brecht
He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.
— Bertolt Brecht
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
— Bertolt Brecht
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
— Bertolt Brecht
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
— Bertolt Brecht
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
— Bertolt Brecht
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
— Bertolt Brecht
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
— Bertolt Brecht
A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
— Bertolt Brecht
