Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
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Famous Bertolt Brecht Quotes
“Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?”
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.”
“He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.”
“I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.”
Source: Brecht Collected Plays: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mohagony and the Seven Deadly Sins :
“The righteous one has no sense of humor.”
Source: Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
Source: Plays
Source: Werke
“To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.”
“You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.”
“If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.”
“It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.”
Source: Parables for the theatre: Two plays: The good woman of Setzuan and The caucasian chalk circle
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
“I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?”
“For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.”
Source: Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins
Source: Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays
“Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.”
Source: The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
“When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.”
Source: Two Plays: The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle
“There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.”
“When the praying does no good, insurance does help.”
Source: The Mother
“Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.”
Source: The Mother
“We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.”
Source: Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays
Source: Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht
Source: The Threepenny Opera
“Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.”
Source: Life Of Galileo
“Terrible is the temptation to be good.”
Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle, translated by J. and T. Stern, with W.H. Auden. The threepenny opera, translated by D.I. Vesey and E. Bentley. The trial of Lucullus, translated by H.R. Hays. The life of Galileo, translated by D.I. Vesey
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic