Quotes from Bertolt Brecht

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.

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

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.

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.

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?

Till you feed us, right and wrong can wait.

Oh! Moon of AlabamaWe now must say good-byeWe've lost our good old mamaAnd must have whiskeyOh, you know why!

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

Of those cities will remain what passed through them, the wind!

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

First the grub, then the morals.

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.

Go make yourself a plan / And be a shining light. / Then make yourself a second plan, / For neither will come right.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

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.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

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

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

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

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Why be a man when you can be a success.

I want to go with the one I love. I do not want to calculate the cost. I do not want to think about whether it's good. I do not want to know whether he loves me. I want to go with whom I love...