First the grub, then the morals.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst the grub, then the morals.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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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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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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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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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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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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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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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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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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