When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming. — Bertolt Brecht

Don’t tell me peace has broken out. — Bertolt Brecht

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

I won’t let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for’em, huh? War feeds its people better. — Bertolt Brecht

What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization. — Bertolt Brecht

It’s never too late for those whose time has come. — Bertolt Brecht

I’m teaching all the time. When am I to learn? — Bertolt Brecht

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone. — Bertolt Brecht

What are you working on?’ Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: ‘I’m having a hard time; I’m preparing my next mistake. — Bertolt Brecht

For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn’t enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age. — Bertolt Brecht

A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore. — Bertolt Brecht

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? — Bertolt Brecht

If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank–open one. — Bertolt Brecht

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank. — Bertolt Brecht

What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? — Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. — Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know. — Bertolt Brecht

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration. — Bertolt Brecht

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. — Bertolt Brecht

To those who do not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say. — Bertolt Brecht

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. — Bertolt Brecht

All the world says: yes we know what’s written in the books but now let’s see what our eyes tell us. — Bertolt Brecht

The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won’t be stolen from under you! — Bertolt Brecht

For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again. — Bertolt Brecht

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him. — Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste. — Bertolt Brecht

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

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news. — Bertolt Brecht

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy. — Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills. — Bertolt Brecht

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well. — Bertolt Brecht

Life is short and so is money. — Bertolt Brecht

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead. — Bertolt Brecht

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living. — Bertolt Brecht

The fate of man is man. — Bertolt Brecht

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes! — Bertolt Brecht

One must live well to know what living is. — Bertolt Brecht

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. — Bertolt Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is Not in demand. — Bertolt Brecht

Everyone needs help from everyone. — Bertolt Brecht

What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough. — Bertolt Brecht

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors. — Bertolt Brecht

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

When you name yourself, you always name another. — Bertolt Brecht

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. — Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. — Bertolt Brecht

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter. — Bertolt Brecht

Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing. — Bertolt Brecht

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does. — Bertolt Brecht

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing. — Bertolt Brecht

If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show. — Bertolt Brecht

What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other. — Bertolt Brecht

Why be a man when you can be a success? — Bertolt Brecht