Grub first, then ethics.
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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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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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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