A theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHTIn the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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I 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.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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