Top 59 Quotes About Augusto
#2. Frustrations are the privilege of the living and transcending them is a privilege of the wise.
Augusto Cury
#3. I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.
Augusto Pinochet
#4. The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#5. Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#6. Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#8. We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.
Augusto Boal
#9. Empathy is the most powerful weapon [ ... ]
Augusto Boal
#11. Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment ... Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.
Augusto De Luca
#12. The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
Augusto Boal
#13. I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
Augusto Pinochet
#16. It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
Augusto Boal
#17. Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
Augusto Pinochet
#18. Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.
Augusto Boal
#19. Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.
Augusto Pinochet
#20. Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
Augusto Boal
#21. Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.
Augusto Pinochet
#22. First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ... Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.
Augusto De Luca
#23. My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
Augusto Pinochet
#24. To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#25. My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator ... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.
Augusto Pinochet
#27. Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.
Augusto Boal
#28. Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides ... A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.
Augusto De Luca
#29. During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline ... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
Augusto Pinochet
#32. The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
Augusto Pinochet
#33. The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
Augusto Pinochet
#34. It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#36. He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
Augusto Pinochet
#37. All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.
Augusto De Luca
#38. The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!
Augusto Boal
#39. Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.
Augusto Boal
#40. In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#41. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#42. The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
Augusto Boal
#43. The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.
Augusto Pinochet
#44. Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#45. Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.
Augusto Pinochet
#46. Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
Augusto Boal
#48. I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
Augusto Pinochet
#49. It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.
Augusto Boal
#51. Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.
Augusto Boal
#52. We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.
Augusto Pinochet
#53. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#54. Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#56. The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
Augusto Boal
#57. I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.
Augusto De Luca
#58. I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.
Augusto De Luca
#59. I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
Augusto Pinochet
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