It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the grub, then the morals.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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