Bertolt Brecht Quotes

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.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Food first, then morality.

Science knows only one commandment—contribute to science.

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

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

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

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

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

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.