Bertolt Brecht Quotes

Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not
Always spoken the truth in my books? And now
You treat me like a liar! I order you:
Burn me!

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Komm, geh mit angeln, sagte der Fischer zum Wurm.

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.

Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

Jim[my] Mahoney, in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930)

The plum tree in the yard's so small
It's hardly like a tree at all.
Yet there it is, railed round
To keep it safe and sound.<p>The poor thing can't grow any more
Though if it could it would for sure.
There's nothing to be done
It gets too little sun.

What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?

Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest
You too have neither home nor rest.

Engel verführt man gar nicht oder schnell.
Verzieh ihn einfach in den Hauseingang
Steck ihm die Zunge in den Mund und lang
Ihm untern Rock, bis er sich naß macht, stell
Ihm das Gesicht zur Wand, heb ihm den Rock
Und fick ihn. Stöhnt er irgendwie beklommen
Dann halt ihn fest und laß ihn zweimal kommen
Sonst hat er dir am Ende einen Schock.
Ermahn ihn, dass er gut den Hintern schwenkt
Heiß ihn dir ruhig an die Hoden fassen
Sag ihm, er darf sich furchtlos fallen lassen
Dieweil er zwischen Erd und Himmel hängt –
Doch schau ihm nicht beim Ficken ins Gesicht
Und seine Flügel, Mensch, zerdrück sie nicht.

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

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.