Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

— Bertolt Brecht

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

— Bertolt Brecht

Everyone needs help from everyone.

— Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

— Bertolt Brecht

First, they came to take the gypsies and I was happy because they pilfered. Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing, because they were unpleasant to me. Then they came to take homosexuals, and I was relieved, because they were annoying me. Then they came to take the Communists, and I said nothing because I was not a Communist. One day they came to take me, and there was nobody left to protest. Bertold Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Daimler

— Bertolt Brecht

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

— Bertolt Brecht

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

— Bertolt Brecht

Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness, Could never be friendly ourselves.

— Bertolt Brecht

He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.

— Bertolt Brecht

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

— Bertolt Brecht