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Bertolt Brecht Biography

Eugen Berthold Friedrich "Bertolt" Brecht (/brɛxt/; German: [bʀɛçt]; 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Curse, Poverty, Wise

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Stupidity, Latter, Workers, Make, Brighter

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

God, Insured, Sky, Storm, Storms

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people. . . it needs no other passport than fun.

Business, Fun, Needs, People, Theatre

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

Give, Giving, Love Is, Receive, Wish

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Communication, Long, Media, War, Warring

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Book, Hungry, Men, Reach, Weapon, Weapons

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.

Cutting, Men, Messed, Opened, Sent, War

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Afraid, Anticipation, Death, Life

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Already, Fight, Fighting, May, People

Right is its own defense.

Defense, Literature, Right

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

Ahead, Hesitate, Ifs, Literature, Right, Travel

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

Believe, Learning, Knows, Learn, See

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Curves, Distance, Obstacles, Points, Shortest, Two

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Alone, Law, Literature, Naked, Prevented

Food first, then morality.

Eating, Firsts, Food, Morality

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.

Dents, Hands, Knives, Man, Men, Wooden

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

Crush, Down, Men, Powerful, Tank, Vehicle

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Happiness, Joy, Live, Men, Right

Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces.

Bird, Comparatives, Instead, Perspective, Recently, Squirrels

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