It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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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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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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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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