Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the pork chops, then morality
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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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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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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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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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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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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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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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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