General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
BERTOLT BRECHTA theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHTI don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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 BRECHTSchoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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 BRECHTGo make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
BERTOLT BRECHTA man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
BERTOLT BRECHTI 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTEats first, morals after.
BERTOLT BRECHTLittle changes are the enemies of great changes.
BERTOLT BRECHTReality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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