War always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht · The source reads: “Der Krieg findet immer einen Ausweg. War always finds a way.”

Food comes first, then morals.

Bertolt Brecht · The source reads: “Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. Food comes first, then morals.”

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Bertolt Brecht · The Threepenny Opera (1928), act III, sc. 9

Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness, Could not ourselves be kind.

Bertolt Brecht · The source reads: “Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness, Could not ourselves be kind. But you, when at last it comes to pass That man can help his fellow man, Do not judge us Too harshly.” · To Those Born Later (1939)

More Political Quotes

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle · Politics, V, 2

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain · Following the Equator (1897), Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch. 8

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“War always finds a way.”

“Food comes first, then morals.”

“What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”

“Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness, Could not ourselves be kind.”

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”