Temptation to behave is terrible.

In the contradiction lies the hope.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

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

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

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.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.