black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht

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.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
BERTOLT BRECHT

People Today World
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Another Government People
First the grub, then the morals.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Expected Good People Remain
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Mirrors Special
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Collapse House Littles
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Diversity Justice Struggle
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Long People Silly
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dark Inspirational Singing
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Banking Breaking Literature Silence
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Going Hurry Like
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Be Kind Kindness Wanted
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Acting Men People

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes