5 Quotes by Arnold Wesker

Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning any more. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.

Education ent only books and music – it’s asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we’re all taking the easiest way out.

If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that?

Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?