Bertolt Brecht Quotes

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
Bertolt Brecht
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
When praying does no good insurance does help.
Bertolt Brecht
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
Bertolt Brecht
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.
Bertolt Brecht
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt Brecht
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Bertolt Brecht
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.
Bertolt Brecht
Everyone needs help from everyone.
Bertolt Brecht
Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.
Bertolt Brecht
It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.
Bertolt Brecht
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.
Bertolt Brecht
Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
First of all, they came to take the gypsiesand I was happy because they pilfered.Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing, because they were unpleasant to me.Then they came to take homosexuals,and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.Then they came to take the Communists,and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.One day they came to take me,and there was nobody left to protest.Bertold Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller
Bertolt Brecht
Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness,Could never be friendly ourselves.
Bertolt Brecht
Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No
Bertolt Brecht
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!"Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.
Bertolt Brecht
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
Bertolt Brecht
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
Bertolt Brecht
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.
Bertolt Brecht
Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.
Bertolt Brecht
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?
Bertolt Brecht
Some party hack decreed that the peoplehad lost the government's confidenceand could only regain it with redoubled effort.If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,If the government simply dissolved the peopleAnd elected another?
Bertolt Brecht
And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear to see it. They are weaklings and fools just like you. As long as they have enough to eat and can grease their floors with butter so that even the crumbs that fall from your table grow fat, they can't look with indifference on a man collapsing from hunger - although, of course, it must be in front of their house that he collapses.
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