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

• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Down

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

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Living

• 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

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• 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

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Life
  • Good
  • Remember

• The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Cool

• Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Words
  • Things
  • Overcome

• The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Mean

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

  

  Augusto Boal
  • Society
  • Living
  • Changing