All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

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.

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

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.

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

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

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

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

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

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!).

Two to three hours of studying a night, Is good medicine for the soul, I have tried this remedy, It never grows old

Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Many a lash in the dark doth con science give the wicked.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.