You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
BERTOLT BRECHTGrub first, then ethics.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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