A theater without beer is just a museum
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!”
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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What 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.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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