Quotes from Bertolt Brecht

I don't trust him, you see we're friends.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

When the Chinese Wall was built, where'd the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquered Gaul, was there not even a cook in the army? When the Armada sank, King Philip wept. Were there no other tears?

A Man lives off his head. His head won't see him through. Inspect your own— What lives on that? At most, a louse or two . . .

And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear to see it. They are weaklings and fools just like you. As long as they have enough to eat and can grease their floors with butter so that even the crumbs that fall from your table grow fat, they can't look with indifference on a man collapsing from hunger - although, of course, it must be in front of their house that he collapses.

Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"!

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at the house-painter's speeches. But only the second Drives me to my desk.

O blindness of the great! They go their way like gods, Great over bent backs, Sure of hired fists, Trusting in the power Which has lasted so long. But long is not forever. O change from age to age! Thou hope of the people!

Epitaph Den Tigern ertrann ich Die Wanzen nährte ich Aufgefressen wurde ich Von den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore.

How can one remain free of every weakness, above all of the most deadly, of love?

Well, where is she ? Where the colossal / Mountains of smoke stand. / That thing there amongst the fires / Is her.

Four generals Set our for Iran. With the first one, war did not agree. The second never won a victory. For the third the weather never was right. For the fourth the men would never fight. Four generals And not a single man!

1.Tanr?: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, baya??l?k, pislik! DoÄŸay? da katletmiÅŸler.Güzelim aÄŸaçlar? tellerle idam etmiÅŸler.DaÄŸlar?n ötesinde duman bulutlar?ndan göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsünün yerini top sesleri alm??. Bütün bunlar?n aras?nda paças?n? kurtarabilen tek kiÅŸiye rastlamad?k.

unhappily, my wife is expecting me in connection with a fish

Geschichten, die man versteht, sind nur schlecht erzählt.

You who will emerge from the flood In which we have gone under Remember When you speak of our failings The dark time too Which you have escaped

I can't abide injustice.

To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

It is many years ago and at times I know nothing about her anymore who was once all things to me but all things pass. (The Eleventh Psalm)

Life is short and so is money.

It's sensible, anyone can understand it. It's easy. You're not an exploiter, so you can grasp it. It's a good thing for you, find out more about it. The stupid call it stupid and the squalid call it squalid. It is against squalor and against stupidity. the exploiters call it a crime But we know: It is the end of crime. It is not madness, but The end of madness. It is not the riddle But the solution. It is the simple thing So hard to achieve. -"Praise of Communism

As soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world,it means that we have abandoned all attempts to understanding it.