More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
If you join the rat race you're in the race of rats.
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
