Whats breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? – Bertolt Brecht
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who dont understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. – 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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. – 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