Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Bertolt Brecht
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bertolt Brecht
Age: 58 †
Born: 1898
Born: February 10
Died: 1956
Died: August 14
Author
Director
Film Director
Librettist
Literary Critic
Lyricist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
Kreisfreie Stadt Augsburg
Berŭtʻoltʻŭ Bŭrehitʻŭ
Pertōl Pirekcṭ
Mpertolt Mprecht
Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe
Pertōlṭ Pirekcṭ
Perṭōlṭ Pireṣṭ
Bertolt Breht
Bert Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
Bertholt Brecht
Bertolʹd Brekht
Bertolʹt Brekht
Brecht
Bertold Brecht
B. Brekht
Bŭrehitʻŭ
Pei-tʻo-erh-tʻe Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe
Setting
Clerk
Easier
Clerks
Literature
Fog
Bankers
Banking
Bank
Settings
Holding
More quotes by Bertolt Brecht
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
Bertolt Brecht
Grub first, then ethics.
Bertolt Brecht
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
Bertolt Brecht
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
Bertolt Brecht
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
Bertolt Brecht
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Bertolt Brecht
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
Bertolt Brecht
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
Bertolt Brecht
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Bertolt Brecht
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
Bertolt Brecht
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
Bertolt Brecht
Reality changes in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
Bertolt Brecht
When you name yourself, you always name another.
Bertolt Brecht
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Bertolt Brecht
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
Bertolt Brecht
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
Bertolt Brecht
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
Bertolt Brecht
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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
