Quotes by Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German - Austrian writer

Lived from: 1898 - 1956

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 10 february 1898 Died: 14 august 1956

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  • Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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  • Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
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  • Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
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  • Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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  • Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
    Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage
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  • The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
    Life of Galileo
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  • The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
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  • The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
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  • 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.
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  • The plum tree in the yard's so small
    It's hardly like a tree at all.
    Yet there it is, railed round
    To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more
    Though if it could it would for sure.
    There's nothing to be done
    It gets too little sun.
    Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv
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  • The right to happiness is fundamental:
    Men live so little time and die alone.
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  • Their peace and their war
    Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
    Poems, 1913-1956
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  • There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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  • There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
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  • This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
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  • Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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  • Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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  • War is like love, it always finds a way.
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  • War is like love; it always finds a way.
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  • We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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