You dont need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured. – Bertolt Brecht
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. – Bertolt Brecht
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. – Bertolt Brecht
People are too durable, thats their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. – Bertolt Brecht
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. – Bertolt Brecht
Whats breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? – Bertolt Brecht
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. – 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. – 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. – Bertolt Brecht
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. – Bertolt Brecht
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. – Bertolt Brecht
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. – Bertolt Brecht
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself. – Bertolt Brecht
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? – Bertolt Brecht
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. – Bertolt Brecht
Mixing ones wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. – Bertolt Brecht
Dont tell me peace has broken out. – 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 trouble with peace is? No organization. – Bertolt Brecht
Dont be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. – Bertolt Brecht
