Quotes from Bertolt Brecht

Denn die einen sind im Dunkeln Und die anderen sind im Licht. Und man sieht nur die im Lichte Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht.

What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to common sense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face

Weaknesses You had none I had one: I loved.

Hay hombres que luchan un dia y son buenos. Hay otros que luchan un año y son mejores. Hay quienes luchan muchos años y son muy buenos. Pero hay los que luchan toda la vida: esos son los imprescindibles.

Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race.

On a certain day in the blue-moon month of September Beneath a young plum tree, quietly I held her there, my quiet, pale beloved In my arms just like a graceful dream. And over us in the beautiful summer sky There was a cloud on which my gaze rested It was very white and so immensely high And when I looked up, it had disappeared.

Every time you name yourself, you name someone else.

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

One must live well to know what living is.

What are you working on?" Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: "I'm having a hard time; I'm preparing my next mistake.

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

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.

The river that everything drags is known as violent, but nobody calls violent the margins that arrest him.

Therefore learn how to see and not to gape. To act instead of talking all day long. The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don't rejoice too soon at your escape - The womb he crawled from is still going strong.

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

The rope has been torn; a knot Can tie it again, but It's been torn. Perhaps we'll meet again, but You won't find me In the place where we parted ways.

Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness, Could never be friendly ourselves.