Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Everyone needs help from everyone.
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
First the grub, then the morals.
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.