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Peter Weiss Quotes

1916–1982 Germany

Peter Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German-born Swedish writer, painter and filmmaker.

Germany
Communists
Film directors
Painters
Playwrights

Also known as: Weiss, Peter

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I've twisted and turned them every way,
And can see no ending to our play.

Marat/Sade (1963)

Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.

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

Marat/Sade (1963)

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

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

Marat/Sade (1963)

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

Marat/Sade (1963)

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

Marat/Sade (1963)

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

Marat/Sade (1963)

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

Marat/Sade (1963)

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

Marat/Sade (1963)

Against Nature's silence I use action
In the vast indifference I invent a meaning
I don't watch unmoved I intervene
and say that this and this are wrong
and I work to alter them and improve them
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

Marat/Sade (1963)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Weiss (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.