Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. Bertolt Brecht More Quotes by Bertolt Brecht More Quotes From Bertolt Brecht Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war. Bertolt Brecht war hands art No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. Bertolt Brecht demand literature long 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. Bertolt Brecht abuse kissing race It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive. Bertolt Brecht what-matters important acceptance Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn. Bertolt Brecht turns scholarship men The fate of man is man. Bertolt Brecht fate men There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers. Bertolt Brecht latter workers stupidity The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. Bertolt Brecht sunset defeat victory 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. Bertolt Brecht cutting men war Right is its own defense. Bertolt Brecht defense literature What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? Bertolt Brecht funny-good-morning cheesy gone To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. Bertolt Brecht finesse process mean Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves. Bertolt Brecht be-kind kindness wanted Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest. Bertolt Brecht knives men hands None will improve your lot If you yourself do not. Bertolt Brecht motivational inspirational life Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer. Bertolt Brecht hammers mirrors art Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. Bertolt Brecht taken writing reality When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. Bertolt Brecht obvious-things mean world You can make a fresh start with your final breath. Bertolt Brecht fresh-start breaths finals In the contradiction lies the hope. Bertolt Brecht contradiction lying
