Quotes from Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

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

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

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

Everyone needs help from everyone.

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

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

People remain what they are, even when their faces fall to pieces.

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

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

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

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.

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

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 law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.