Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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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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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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