Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHTErst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fate of man is man.
BERTOLT BRECHTToday every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
BERTOLT BRECHTHe who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
BERTOLT BRECHTSpring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
BERTOLT BRECHTShow 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
BERTOLT BRECHTThings take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHTReality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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