Source: Mother Courage and Her Children
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Bertolt Brecht Quotes
“Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!”
“Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.”
“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”
Source: Collected Stories
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“War is like love, it always finds a way.”
Source: Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War
Source: Plays