Bertolt Brecht Quotes

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.

There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren't.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents;... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Full stomachs don't believe empty ones.

For America's elite there is never accountability. That is for the rest of us.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.