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First the pork chops, then morality

Bertolt Brecht

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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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
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!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste

First the pork chops, then morality

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