Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHTFirst feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Eats first, morals after.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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