First the pork chops, then morality
BERTOLT BRECHTNever believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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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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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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