You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
BERTOLT BRECHTScience knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTNever believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTWar is like love, it always finds a way.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHTAs regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
BERTOLT BRECHTI 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTHere today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
BERTOLT BRECHTOnly bad generals need heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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