Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Grub first, then ethics.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act I Scene 3

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

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.

Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act I Scene 3

Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo

Bertolt Brecht

German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht