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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

Bertolt Brecht

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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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Errors Science Wisdom
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

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