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First the grub, then the morals.

Bertolt Brecht

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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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Crush Men Powerful
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World

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