black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fun People Theatre
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dammed Easy Important
Life is short and so is money.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Cute Life Money Short
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Order Reality Tables
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Errors Science Wisdom
Everyone needs help from everyone.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Collaboration Helping Needs
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Tree Wood Writing
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Condition Example Made Realist
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Storm Tree Violent
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Democracy Favors Freedom
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fortune Good Mighty Share
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Demand Literature Long
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Leadership Numbers Two
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dark Inspirational Singing

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes