"When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never â€“ since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a catharsis, or to end a development. On the contrary, its objective is to encourage autonomous activity, to set a process in motion, to stimulate transformative creativity, to change spectators into protagonists. And it is precisely for these reasons that the Theatre of the Oppressed should be the initiator of changes the culmination of which is not the aesthetic phenomenon but real life."

-- Augusto Boal

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“Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”
“And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?”
“If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.”
“If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.”
“That's what's gonna make me come up with new stuff, if you get a good break or a good beat, you get a certain energy, and you wanna release that energy. Freezes to me are like releasing a certain energy. That's me releasing energy that beat gives me, to come up with certain things. A good beat, a rare break, a dope song that I've never really breaked to before will give me a new feeling, a new movement.”
“He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Parisâ€”but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.”
“With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.”

Source : "Politics Reasserts Itself in the Debate Over Climate Change and Its Hazards" by Andrew C. Revkin, www.nytimes.com. August 05, 2003.
“Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.”

Source : "Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune". Interview with Gary Baum, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2013.

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