What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
Don’t expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.