To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Life is short and so is money.
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