Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brechtwas a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 February 1898
CityAugsburg, Germany
CountryGermany
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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.
Would it not be simpler If the Government Dissolved the people And elected another?
You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
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. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.