He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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!”
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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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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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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