Bertolt Brecht Quotes - Page 4

A theater without beer is just a museum

People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

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

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

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Right is its own defense.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

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

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 fate of man is man.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.