People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.

— Bertolt Brecht

People who understand everything get no stories.

— Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

— Bertolt Brecht

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theater must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

— Bertolt Brecht

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

— Bertolt Brecht

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

— Bertolt Brecht

Sometimes I see myself driving through hell with this wagon and selling brimstone. And sometimes I’m driving through heaven handing our provisions to wandering souls! If only we could find a place where there’s no shooting, me and my children—what’s left of ‘em—we might rest a while.

— Bertolt Brecht

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

— Bertolt Brecht

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

— Bertolt Brecht

The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.

— Bertolt Brecht