black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

Bertolt Brecht

I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Clothes Feelings Writing
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Ahead Literature Travel
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Account Knows Science
War is like love, it always finds a way.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Life Love Military
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Able Strong Theatre
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
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Leadership Numbers Two
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Boys Broken Girl Heart
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Embrace Hands War
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Ground Knows Others Ourselves
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Humor One Righteous Sense
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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Friendship Negative Trust

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes