Grub first, then ethics.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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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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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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