26 Quotes by Peter Weiss

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes.

Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear.

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.

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

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

These cells of the inner self are darker than the deepest stone dungeon, and as long as they are locked, all your revolution remains but a prison mutiny, to be put down by corrupted fellow prisoners.

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.

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.