26 Quotes by Peter Weiss

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.

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

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.

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they’re just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing – not to lie under theearth, but to walk upon it – without crutches.

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

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

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.

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.

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.