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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Knives Order Sweat
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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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Emperor Finest Ruined
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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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Men Struggle Years
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
The 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.
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Finest Spoil

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

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