The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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The fate of man is man.
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The 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.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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