It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the grub, then the morals.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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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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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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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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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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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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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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