Artist Quotes by Bertolt Brecht

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

— Bertolt Brecht

Boy Meets Girl, So What?

— Bertolt Brecht

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the…

— Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

— Bertolt Brecht

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

— Bertolt Brecht

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

— Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

— Bertolt Brecht

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

— Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

— Bertolt Brecht

“When the sharks the sharks devour Little fishes have their hour.”

— Bertolt Brecht

“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at…

— Bertolt Brecht

“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…

— Bertolt Brecht

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

— Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

— Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

— Bertolt Brecht