First the pork chops, then morality
BERTOLT BRECHTNo one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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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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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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Eats first, morals after.
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Love 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.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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