Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost. - Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you! - Bertolt Brecht
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming. - Bertolt Brecht
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. - Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. - Bertolt Brecht
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
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
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. - Bertolt Brecht
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
First the pork chops, then morality - Bertolt Brecht
First the pork chops, then morality
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