Bertolt Brecht Quotes

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

Eats first, morals after.

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

First the pork chops, then morality

People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

When you name yourself, you always name another.

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

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.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ichDie Wanzen nährte ichAufgefressen wurde ichVon den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

Why be a man when you can be a success.

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.

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?

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.

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!"Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.

The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.

What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.

When praying does no good insurance does help.

War is like love it always finds a way.

War is like love it always finds a way.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.