Peter Weiss Quotes

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.

What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind

Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.

We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs

What's the point of a revolution without general copulation copulation copulation

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.