Bertolt Brecht quotes

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. (Bertolt Brecht)
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
Bertolt Brecht
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
Bertolt Brecht
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Bertolt Brecht
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
Bertolt Brecht
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
Bertolt Brecht
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Bertolt Brecht
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
Bertolt Brecht
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. (Bertolt Brecht)
Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Bertolt Brecht
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
Bertolt Brecht
What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank.
Bertolt Brecht
Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht
War is like love; it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Bertolt Brecht
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Bertolt Brecht
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? (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
What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?
Bertolt Brecht
For once you must try not to shirk the facts mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
Bertolt Brecht