Augusto Boal Quotes

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

Augusto Boal

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Happy
  • Scary
  • Living

• Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Living
  • Brand

• Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • America
  • Changing

• I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • America
  • Kind

• Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Work
  • Living
  • Work Hard

• We live in a technical society.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Live
  • Society
  • Technical

• Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Become

• We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Society
  • Create
  • United

• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Living
  • Jews
  • Minority

• Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Living
  • Texas
  • Mexican

• The essential purpose of Christianity was to transform human society into the kingdom of God by regenerating all human relations and reconstituting them in accordance with the will of God. ...I have never met with any previous attempt to give a satisfactory historical explanation of this failure.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • God
  • Society
  • Purpose

• All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Long
  • Nature

• The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Different
  • Society
  • Political

• 'Why are you so concerned about society?' That is always the question. And my answer is simple: 'Because you are an artist, you have to associate yourself with freedom of expression.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Why
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Death
  • Society

• A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Society
  • Peace

• A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Song
  • Society
  • Lyrics

• 'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Chicago

• You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Spirit

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

  

  Augusto Boal
  • Society
  • Living
  • Changing