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

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 [...]

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!).

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.' This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.

None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.

One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.