He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

- Bertolt Brecht

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?

- Bertolt Brecht

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

- Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

- Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

- Bertolt Brecht

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

- Bertolt Brecht

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

- Bertolt Brecht

First the pork chops, then morality

- Bertolt Brecht

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

- Bertolt Brecht