The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the pork chops, then morality
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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