Bertolt Brecht Quotations | Page 2

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

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

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.

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

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Only bad generals need heroes.

He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

I don't trust him. We're friends.