It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the grub, then the morals.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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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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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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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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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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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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