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More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
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.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
