Grub first, then ethics.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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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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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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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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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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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Only bad generals need heroes.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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