Bertolt Brecht Quotes

It's my job to spread deviance to the American youth.

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies.

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

We did it just because it was forbidden.

What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

With 'Only God Forgives,' what's great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out.

I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.