One must live well to know what living is.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne must live well to know what living is.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
BERTOLT BRECHTLiterary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
BERTOLT BRECHTGo make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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 BRECHTSomething ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHTIn the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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