Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better.”
“I don’t trust him, you see we’re friends.”
“They’ve filed down whatever edges we used to have.”
“Where else are you going to get morality from, is what I say? Peace is just piggishness, it takes war to establish order.”
“The noblest plans are brought down through the low-mindedness of those who are supposed to carry them out.”
“Sometimes I see myself driving through hell with this wagon and selling brimstone. And sometimes I’m driving through heaven handing our provisions to wandering souls! If only we could find a place where there’s no shooting, me and my children—what’s left of ‘em—we might rest a while.”
“He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.”
“Facts are facts, whisper them or shout them.”
“All I get from your victory is losses.”
“You heard of honest Socrates, The man who never lied: They weren’t so grateful as you think. Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried And handed him the poisoned drink. How honest was the people’s noble son! The world however didn’t wait But soon observed what followed on. It’s honesty that brought him to that state. How fortunate the man with none!”
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Book Keywords:
war, men, humorous, feminism, peace, courage
