black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fortune Good Mighty Share
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Account Knows Science
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Abuse Kissing Race
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Mirror Reality
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Faces Fall People
Only bad generals need heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHT

General Hero Needs
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Another Government People
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Allies Art Mean
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
First the grub, then the morals.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Bad Good Luck
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Happiness Hero Land
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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Moving People Trouble
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Boys Broken Girl Heart

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes