More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
If you join the rat race you're in the race of rats.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
