Quotes from Bertolt Brecht

First the grub, then the morals.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

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.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.

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

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

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.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

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.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

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.

Don't accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

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

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.