Peter Weiss Quotes

• 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

  Ideas, Generations, Way

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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• 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

  Eye, Hair, Important

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.58, A&C Black

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

  Peter Weiss

  La verdad

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.62, A&C Black

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• 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

  War, Would Be, Looks

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.51, A&C Black

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Goes On

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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

  Peter Weiss

  Ears, Favour, Breathe

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.112, A&C Black

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• Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

  Peter Weiss

  Wages, Useless, Poverty

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.81, A&C Black

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• 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

  War, Lying, Military

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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• 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

  Men, Imagination, Trying

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.90, A&C Black

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• Estamos todos tan atascados de ideas muertas transmitidas de generación en generación que ni siquiera los mejores de nosotros sabemos la salida Inventamos la Revolución pero no sabemos cómo dirigirla Mira todo el mundo quiere conservar algo del pasado un recuerdo del antiguo régimen Este hombre decide conservar un cuadro Este conserva a su amante Este [señalando] conserva su jardín Este [señalando] conserva su finca Este conserva su casa de campo Este conserva sus fábricas Este hombre no podía desprenderse de sus astilleros Este conserva su ejército y aquel conserva a su rey.

  Peter Weiss

  Correr, Campo, Reyes

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

  Peter Weiss

  Revolución

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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

  Peter Weiss

  Fighting, Men, Sea

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

  Peter Weiss

  Art, People, Lust

  Peter Weiss (2005). “The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1: A Novel”, p.60, Duke University Press

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• 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

  Peter Weiss

  Dog, Brother, Jobs

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• Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

  Peter Weiss

  Hero, Long Ago, Long

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.68, A&C Black

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• I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.

  Peter Weiss

  Country, Spring, Ideas

  Peter Weiss (1966). “Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point”

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• 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

  Peter Weiss

  Bleeding, Bread, Christ

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.60, A&C Black

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

  Peter Weiss

  Lying, Behinds, Unfathomable

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

  Peter Weiss

  Business, Trying, Midst

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.63, A&C Black

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• 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

  Peter Weiss

  Eye, Hair, Silence

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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• 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

  Peter Weiss

  Long Ago, Years, Dungeons

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.98, A&C Black

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• 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

  Art, Blessed, Games

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• Don't soil your pretty little shoes The gutter's deep and red Climb up climb up and ride along with me the tumbrel driver said But she never said a word never turned her head Don't soil your pretty little pants I only go one way Climb up climb up and ride along with me There's no gold coach today But she never said a word never turned her head

  Peter Weiss

  Shoes, Gold, Gutters

  Peter Weiss (1993). “Peter Weiss' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat: As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [a Play]”

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

  Peter Weiss

  Hero, Desire, Embrace

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• Toda muerte, incluso la más cruel, se ahoga en la total indiferencia de la Naturaleza La Naturaleza misma miraría impasible si destruyéramos a toda la raza humana Odio a la Naturaleza este espectador sin pasión esta cara de iceberg irrompible que puede soportarlo todo esto nos empuja a actos cada vez mayores

  Peter Weiss

  Hate, Race, Watches

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