What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
BERTOLT BRECHTCome in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhy be a man when you can be a success?
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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 BRECHTWhat a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is the wish to give, not to receive.
BERTOLT BRECHTIntelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
BERTOLT BRECHTSomething ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
BERTOLT BRECHTTo those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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