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First the pork chops, then morality

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Show 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.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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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Art Heart Order Philosophy
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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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Men Show Traded
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
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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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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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Mean World
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People

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