Peter Weiss Quotes

#1. 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.

Peter Weiss

#2. Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.

Peter Weiss

#3. 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

Peter Weiss

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

Peter Weiss

#5. 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.

Peter Weiss

#6. We're all free and equal to die like dogs

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#7. 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

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#8. 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

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#9. 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.

Peter Weiss

#10. Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square Inch of it would be painted over with you." - Julian Blackthorn

Cassandra Clare

#11. Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man

Zaman Ali

#12. Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

Paul Desmond

#13. What's the point of a revolution
without general
copulation copulation copulation

Peter Weiss

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

Peter Weiss

#15. Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.

Dan Buettner

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

Peter Weiss

#17. 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.

Peter Weiss

#18. 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

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

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

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#21. 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.

Peter Weiss

#22. 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.

Peter Weiss

#23. Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

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#24. With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

Peter Weiss

#25. The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

Patricia Schroeder