black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Curse Poverty Wise
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Lying Running Writing
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHT

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

Fire Nothing World
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Leadership Numbers Two
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Guest Home Wind
Right is its own defense.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Defense Literature Own Right
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Thinking War Writing
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
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Mirror Reality
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Contentment Country Sacrifice
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Clever Lying Smart
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Mirrors Special
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Knives Order Sweat

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes