None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTEats first, morals after.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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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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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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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