Bertolt Brecht Quotes
For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera. Translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, Arcade Publishing, 1994, p. 76.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the so-called V-effect.
