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Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.

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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.

Corpses, Dead, Looks, Saw, War, Would Be

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

Behinds, Lies, Lying, Unfathomable, Words

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.

Blinkered, Imagination, Men, Mocked, Trying, Woe

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.

Dead, Generation, Generations, Ideas, Way

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

Alter, Eye, Fresh, Hair, Silence, Whole

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.

Idea, Lying, Messing, Military, War, Wiped

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

Bleeding, Bread, Christ, Image, Scourged

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

Desire, Desires, Embrace, Hero, Tempting

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 invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king

Country, Kings, Man, Passed, Running

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

Brother, Dirty, Dog, Jobs, Lousy

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.

1947, Country, Ideas, Place, Spring

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

Bring, Business, Clumsy, Deals, Midst, Trying

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

Bird, Corday, Down, Paris, Sang, Singing

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

Copulation, General, Point, Revolution

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

Dungeon, Long Ago, Thirty, Written, Yards, Years

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

Breathe, Ears, Favour, Fear, Like

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.

Eye, Fresh, Hair, Important, Pull, Turn

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

Everyone, Gone, Men, Ruling, Think, Thinking