First the grub, then the morals.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Life is short and so is money.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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