It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. Bertolt Brecht More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht More Quotes From Bertolt Brecht Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht anticipation life death All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living. Bertolt Brecht art-of-living art Love is the wish to give, not to receive. Bertolt Brecht wish love-is giving The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. Bertolt Brecht errors wisdom science If you don't have fun, you don't have a show. Bertolt Brecht shows fun inspirational We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians. Bertolt Brecht government war people Everyone needs help from everyone. Bertolt Brecht collaboration helping needs Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. Bertolt Brecht moving-on wisdom mistake Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. Bertolt Brecht land hero happiness The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too. Bertolt Brecht knives sweat order Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk. Bertolt Brecht sacrifice contentment country 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. Bertolt Brecht naked literature law Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it. Bertolt Brecht creating earth bears It's never too late for those whose time has come. Bertolt Brecht never-too-late late too-late Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest. Bertolt Brecht guests home wind Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another? Bertolt Brecht government ifs people When the leaders speak of peace Bertolt Brecht common-folk war lying Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. Bertolt Brecht weapons men book It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation. Bertolt Brecht discovery reality art If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost. Bertolt Brecht fighting lost might
