black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fire Nothing World
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fool Government Splits
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Mirror Reality
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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fear Today Triumph
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Reality Taken Writing
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Bird Perspective Squirrels
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Anger Dies Moral
People who understand everything get no stories.
BERTOLT BRECHT

People Stories Understand
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Majority Purpose Shoulders
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
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Collapse House Littles
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Finesse Mean Process
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Death Fear Life
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

Crush Men Powerful
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Politics Suppose War

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes