Words matter. These are the best Bertolt Brecht Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
Why be a man when you can be a success?
Why be a man when you can be a success?
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
Temptation to behave is terrible.
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
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.
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Grub first, then ethics.
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
War is like love; it always finds a way.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.