Quotes About Augusto Boal

#1. You might not be able to change your situation but prayer can.

Jerry Kinard

#2. Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Jean-Luc Godard

#3. Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

Augusto Boal

#4. May I collect you, Rini? - " he said, softly pulling our lips apart. "As mine?

R.J. Gonzales

#5. I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

Carrie Fisher

#6. Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

Augusto Boal

#7. Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.

Augusto Boal

#8. A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

Frederick Douglass

#9. I'd make a snide comment about the youths of america but I'm too impressed by the fact that she's reading something other than Fifty Shades of Grey.

Jodi Picoult

#10. 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

#11. If we have a chance coming to the Top and no have luck For stay there, the way down can be very Scary for the change in our Life style.

Jan Jansen

#12. I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

Leon Redbone

#13. 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

#14. Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

Suzanne Fields

#15. Empathy is the most powerful weapon [ ... ]

Augusto Boal

#16. We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

Augusto Boal

#17. It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

Augusto Boal

#18. The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

Augusto Boal

#19. Sure I may look adjusted, but I can't function in normal society because most of you are too stupid.

Daniel Tosh

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

Augusto Boal

#23. Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

Augusto Boal

#24. 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