Grub first, then ethics.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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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