99+ Bertolt Brecht Quotes on Hunger, Abuse and Illiteracy - Quotes.pub

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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.

If you stuffed a ship full to bursting point with human bodies, there would be such loneliness that they would all freeze.

It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.

People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

The noblest plans are brought down through the low-mindedness of those who are supposed to carry them out.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

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.

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you.

They’ve filed down whatever edges we used to have.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf.

One day somebody asked Herr K. if there was a God. Herr K. replied: “I suggest that you ask yourself whether the answer would effect your behavior. If your behavior would remain unchanged, then we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can at least be of assistance to you by telling you that you have already decided: you need a God.

And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear to see it. They are weaklings and fools just like you. As long as they have enough to eat and can grease their floors with butter so that even the crumbs that fall from your table grow fat, they can’t look with indifference on a man collapsing from hunger – although, of course, it must be in front of their house that he collapses.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

The most important thing is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the thinking of great men.

Facts are facts, whisper them or shout them.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

How can one remain free of every weakness, above all of the most deadly, of love?

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

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

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

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

He’ll never be conquered, that man, and you know why? We all back him up – the little fellows like you and me. Oh yes, to hear the big fellows talk, they ’re fighting for their beliefs and so on, but if you look into it, you find they’re not that silly: they do want to make a profit on the deal. So you and I back them up! COOK.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

First the grub, then the morals.

Firsts Quotes

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.

The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world’s one hope.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Would it not be simpler If the Government Dissolved the people And elected another?

Eats first, morals after.

Firsts Quotes

I don’t know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.

The fate of man is man.

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

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

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