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

Our play's chief aim has been to take to bits
Great propositions and their opposites, See how they work, and let them fight it out, To point some light on our eternal doubt. Marat and I both advocated force But in debate each took a different course. Both wanted changes, but his views and mine On using power never could combine. On the one side, he who thinks our lives Can be improved by axes and knives, Or he who, submerged in the imagination, Seeking a personal annihilation.

We're all free and equal to die like dogs

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes