…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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The 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.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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