Famous Bertolt Brecht Quotations

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"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"
by Bertolt Brecht
"Don't tell me peace has broken out."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."
by Bertolt Brecht
"First the grub, then the morals."
by 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."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Grub first, then ethics."
by Bertolt Brecht
"He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news."
by Bertolt Brecht
"On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Righteous people have no sense of humor."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself."
by Bertolt Brecht
"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."
by Bertolt Brecht
"There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste."
by Bertolt Brecht
"War is like love; it always finds a way."
by Bertolt Brecht
"War is like love it always finds a way."
by Bertolt Brecht
"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone"
by Bertolt Brecht
"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
by Bertolt Brecht
"Why be a man when you can be a success"
by Bertolt Brecht
"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
by Bertolt Brecht
"It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk."
by Bertolt Brecht
"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long."
by Bertolt Brecht
"People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart."
by Bertolt Brecht
"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand."
by 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."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear."
by 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."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Right is its own defense."
by Bertolt Brecht
"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn."
by Bertolt Brecht
"We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself."
by Bertolt Brecht
"War is like love, it always finds a way."
by Bertolt Brecht
"Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the forme..."
by Bertolt Brecht
"It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, ..."
by Bertolt Brecht
"The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) and sets (trans..."
by Bertolt Brecht
"The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I've felt that way, too. That's the way I am. That's life. That's the way it will..."
by Bertolt Brecht
"To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated."
by Bertolt Brecht
"What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the troub..."
by Bertolt Brecht


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