I 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!”
BERTOLT BRECHTRight is its own defense.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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