Bertolt Brecht Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love Is, Giving, Wish

• The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Order, Knives, Sweat

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.297, Taylor & Francis

• A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Giving, Police

  "The Threepenny Opera". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1928.

• Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love, Art, Giving

  Bertolt Brecht, Martin Chalmers (2001). “Stories of Mr. Keuner”, p.73, City Lights Books

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