black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Country Hero Needs
Grub first, then ethics.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Cooking First Food
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Belief Men Running
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Change Moving Stay Strong
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Defeat Sunset Victory
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Army War Years
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Criminals Doe Lying
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Order Reality Representation
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Come Late never Too
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fear Today Triumph
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Enemy Himself Speak
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Already Fighting May
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fall Rain Summer
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Deserve Innocent Shots

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes