Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
BERTOLT BRECHTI was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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