Quotes from brecht bertolt ii

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.

The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one's thinking.

Always the victor writes the history of the vanquished. He who beats distorts the faces of the beaten. The weaker depart from this world and the lies remain.

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me!

The absurdity of opera lies in the fact that rational elements are used and three-dimensional reality is aimed at while at the same time everything is neutralized by the music.

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

My business is trying to arouse human pity. There are few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is when they've been used several times, they no longer work. So it happens, for instance, that a man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time that he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll hand him over cold-bloodedly to the police.

I see with sympathy The swollen veins on his brow, showing How exhausting it is to be evil.

Those who are weak don't fight. Those who are stronger might fight for an hour. Those who are stronger still might fight for many years. The strongest fight their whole life. They are the indispensable ones.

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

The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I've felt that way, too. That's the way I am. That's life. That's the way it will always be. The suffering of this or that person grips me because there is no escape for him.

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