Boy Meets Girl, So What?
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the grub, then the morals.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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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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Eats first, morals after.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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