Bertolt Brecht Quotes (75 Quotes)

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

When a soldier sees a clean face, there's one more whore in the world.

For once you must try not to shirk the facts mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

I want to go with whom I love.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

From new transmitters came the old stupidities. Wisdom was passed on from mouth to mouth.

You want justice, but do you want to pay for it, hm When you go to a butcher you know you have to pay, but you people go to a judge as if you were off to a funeral supper.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Grub first, then ethics.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

The shadow of murder lay upon my sleep.

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank.

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

How great and wise was Solomon.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

What is the crime of robbing a bank compared with the crime of founding one.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Learn your French, learn your history!

Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men.For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat.

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.