Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brechtwas a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 February 1898
CityAugsburg, Germany
CountryGermany
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, Provided he loves peace, Is a greater lover of the arts Than any so-called art-lover Who loves the arts of war.
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
Right is its own defense.
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?
It's never too late for those whose time has come.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.
Eats first, morals after.