Quotes by Bertolt Brecht

“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes”

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

“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”

“The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.”

“Those who are weak don't fight.Those who are stronger might fightfor an hour.Those who are stronger still might fightfor many years.The strongest fighttheir whole life.They are the indispensable ones.”

“Natrlich muss die Wahrheit im Kampf mit der Unwahrheit geschrieben werden und sie darf nicht etwas Allgemeines, Hohes, Vieldeutiges sein. Von dieser allgemeinen, hohen, vieldeutigen Art ist ja gera...”

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butcher...”

“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies bar...”

“The war which is comingIs not the first one. There wereOther wars before it.When the last one came to an endThere were conquerors and conquered.Among the conquered the common peopleStarved. Among t...”

“Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.”

“Sometimes I see myself driving through hell with this wagon and selling brimstone. And sometimes Im driving through heaven handing our provisions to wandering souls! If only we could find a place w...”

“EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ichDie Wanzen nhrte ichAufgefressen wurde ichVon den Mittelmigkeiten.”

“He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.”

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesnt hear, doesnt speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesnt know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the...”

“People who understand everything get no stories.”

“Why be a man when you can be a success.”

“If we could learn to look instead of gawking,We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,If only we could act instead of talking,We wouldn't always end up on our arse.This was the thing that nearly h...”

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

“We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a...”

“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...”