All Quotes by Peter Weiss
“I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. … That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.”
“In Dante the hero would rather flee and enduring the attendant dangers.”
“Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.”
“We've got rights the right to starveWe're all free and equal to die like dogs”
“Charlotte Corday walked aloneHeard the singing guillotine”
“Don't soil your pretty little shoesnever turned her head”
“Every death even the cruellest deaththis goads us to greater and greater acts”
“Against Nature's silence I use actionand see the whole world with fresh eyes”
“And the priests looked down into the pit of injusticefor it is the will of God”
“So the poor instead of bread made do with a pictureand prayed to that image of their helplessness”
“Singers: We've got nothing always had nothingRossignol: and holes in our clothes”
“Once and for allwithout crutches”
“MaratMarat who was Marat”
“And now Maratbut which is impregnable”
“Don't be deceivedwho still have much more than you”
“What has gone wrong withthe same torture goes on”
“Long ago I abandoned my masterpiecewill disappear”
“What's the point of a revolutioncopulation copulation copulation”
“Fight on land and seawe'll abolish all mankind”
“We can say what we like without favour or fearand what we can't say we can breathe in your ear”
“I've twisted and turned them every way, And can see no ending to our play.”