It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. – 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
Mixing ones wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. – Bertolt Brecht
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. – Bertolt Brecht
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton