I 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!" 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.
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry? - Bertolt Brecht
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?
- Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost. - Bertolt Brecht
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you! - Bertolt Brecht
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming. - Bertolt Brecht
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. - Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. - Bertolt Brecht
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal. - Bertolt Brecht
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. - Bertolt Brecht
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
First the pork chops, then morality - Bertolt Brecht
First the pork chops, then morality
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