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Bertolt Brecht Quotes | Quotes said by Bertolt Brecht

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #1

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


  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #2

    Bei den Hochgestellten gilt das Reden vom Essen als niedrig. Das kommt: sie haben schon gegessen.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #3

    Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #4

    Dabei wissen wir doch:
    Auch der Hass gegen die Niedrigkeit
    Verzerrt die Züge.
    Auch der Zorn über das Unrecht
    Macht die Stimme heiser. Ach, wir
    Die wir den Boden bereiten wollten für
    Freundlichkeit
    Konnten selber nicht freundlich sein.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #5

    Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #6

    Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #7

    Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #8

    Epitaph

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

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #9

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

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #10

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

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #11

    First of all, they came to take the gypsies
    and I was happy because they pilfered.
    Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing,
    because they were unpleasant to me.
    Then they came to take homosexuals,
    and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.
    Then they came to take the Communists,
    and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.
    One day they came to take me,
    and there was nobody left to protest.

    Bertold Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #12

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

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #13

    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.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #14

    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.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #15

    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.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #16

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

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #17

    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.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #18

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

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #19

    Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #20

    Natürlich 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 gerade die Unwahrheit. Wenn von einem gesagt wird, er hat die Wahrheit gesagt, so haben zunächst einige oder viele oder einer etwas anderes gesagt, eine Lüge oder etwas Allgemeines, aber er hat die Wahrheit gesagt, etwas Praktisches, Tatsächliches, Unleugbares, das, um was es sich handelte.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #21

    No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #22

    People who understand everything get no stories.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #23

    Potkupljivost je u ljudi isto što u Boga milosrde.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #24

    Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #25

    Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #26

    Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #27

    Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #28

    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?

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #29

    Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore.

  • Bertolt Brecht Quote #30

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

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