You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
BERTOLT BRECHTYou may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
BERTOLT BRECHTFearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHTCome in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
BERTOLT BRECHTBut something’s missing.
BERTOLT BRECHTSin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
BERTOLT BRECHTOn thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
BERTOLT BRECHTEats first, morals after.
BERTOLT BRECHTSpring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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!”
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhy be a man when you can be a success?
BERTOLT BRECHTThe defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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