Bertolt Brecht

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

War is like love; it always finds a way.

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
Bertolt Brecht - The life of Galileo
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Grub first, then ethics.
Bertolt Brecht - The Mother, 1932
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

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

War is like love; it always finds a way.

On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
Bertolt Brecht - The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act I Scene 3
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.

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

- Bertolt Brecht