black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Forever Mills Wheels
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Appreciation Littles Progress
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Defect Men Thinking
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fearful Goodness Seductive
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Declaring Running War
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fear Today Triumph
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Living Service
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Men Show Traded
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Literature Temptation Terrible
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Great Healthy Sports
First the pork chops, then morality
BERTOLT BRECHT

Firsts Morality Pork
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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

Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Be Kind Kindness Wanted

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes