Bertolt Brecht Quotes

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

We are poor and our allies are few, but we have our bodies and justice as our tools.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

Injustice can never be stood for.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.