More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
If you don't have fun, you don't have a show.
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.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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.
In the contradiction lies the hope.
