Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
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.
Why be a man when you can be a success?
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Boy meets Girl, So What?
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, ...
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.
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) and sets (trans...
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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.
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.
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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...
There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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.
