Bertolt Brecht

• "In the contradiction lies the hope."

• "Mr. Wurlitzer, I am now in a position to receive your organ."

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

• "Why be a man when you can be a success?"

• "War always finds a way."

• "There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste."

• "What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of one?"

• "He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news."

• "Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."

• "General, man can do everything: he can fly and he can kill. But he's got a fault: he can think" (from the poem: To the General)

• "Don't rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world stood up and stopped the Bastard, the Bitch that bore him is in heat again." - May 6th 1945

• "The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot".
  • On Moscow Trials defendants, as recounted years later by neoconservative Sidney Hook ; he may have meant that Stalin's killing of innocents was justified, or alternatively that if the defendants had failed to conspire against Stalin, they deserved to be shot.

• "Under Capitalism you sell your piss to the urinal."

• "If all people want is to see something they understand, they shouldn't go to the theater. They should go to the bathroom."