black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

Bertolt Brecht

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.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fall Rain Summer
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Confusion Humanity Nature
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Change Moving Stay Strong
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fighting Lost
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Finesse Mean Process
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.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fall Heaven Snow
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fighting Loses Lost
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Mean World
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Good Knows Rapture Things
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Collapse House Littles
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fall Men Tiles
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.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Change Nothing Reality Representation
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Feelings Historical Theatre
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Common Folk Leader War
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Crazy Literature Teacher
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Brain Division Labor

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes