Bertolt Brecht Quotes

Most popular Bertolt Brecht Quotes

Food comes first, then morals. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
Food comes first, then morals.
— Bertolt Brecht The Threepenny Opera

food

Life is short, and so is money. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
Life is short, and so is money.
— Bertolt Brecht
War is like love, it always finds a way. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
— Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children

war

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
— Bertolt Brecht
The man who laughs has not yet heard the news. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
The man who laughs has not yet heard the news.
— Bertolt Brecht

cynical

When the praying does no good, insurance does help. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
— Bertolt Brecht The Mother

insurance

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
— Bertolt Brecht

death

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
— Bertolt Brecht The Good Woman of Setzuan

Goodness

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
— Bertolt Brecht
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
— Bertolt Brecht The Caucasian Chalk Circle

wisdom

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at his heels. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at his heels.
— Bertolt Brecht
If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line.
— Bertolt Brecht Galileo

obstacles

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
— Bertolt Brecht In the Jungle of Cities

ingratitude

In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing about the dark times. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing about the dark times.
— Bertolt Brecht
I love the people with their simple straightforward minds. It's only that their smell brings on my migraine. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
I love the people with their simple straightforward minds. It's only that their smell brings on my migraine.
— Bertolt Brecht

the public

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. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
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.
— Bertolt Brecht
The human race...tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments.  What's left of kisses?  Wounds however leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
The human race...tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments.  What's left of kisses?  Wounds however leave scars.
— Bertolt Brecht Short Stories, 1921-1946

abuse

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. - Bertolt Brecht quote.
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure.
— Bertolt Brecht Little Organon for the Theater

art science science & art