First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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First the pork chops, then morality
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