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1 " 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. "
― Augusto Boal , Theatre of the Oppressed
2 " It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass. "
― Augusto Boal
3 " Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion. "
4 " The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution." ~ Augusto Boal "
5 " Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]" ~ Augusto Boal "
6 " 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!)." ~ Augusto Boal "
7 " Motion, according to him, is an illusion, because we can demonstrate that it does not actually exist; the same for the multiplicity of existing things, which are in his logic, a single being, infinite, eternal, unchangeable. Like Heraclitus, Parmenides too, had his radical disciple, named Zeno. The latter had the habit of telling two stories to prove the inexistence of motion. "
8 " The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!" ~ Augusto Boal "
9 " 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." ~ "
10 " The smallest incidents of our social life contain all the moral and political values of society, all its structures of domination and power, all its mechanisms of oppression. "
11 " Gente como essa (...) não pode ser absolvida com o argumento de que é produto de uma sociedade, pois foram criados em sociedades que também produziram pessoas éticas. Nenhuma sociedade fabrica, "em série", os seus cidadãos — somos todos responsáveis por nossos atos.Já algumas vezes ouvi o argumento vergonhoso de que até "Hitler não nasceu monstro, foi a sociedade que o tornou assim". Penso, ao contrário, que não podemos fingir ignorar que temos livre-arbítrio e somos responsáveis pelas escolhas que fazemos, cada um de nós, é claro, dentro de uma situação social e política concreta, que é poderosa e determinante, mas não exclusiva. A história dos povos e a biografia dos indivíduos não são obra da fatalidade. Construímos nossas vidas que não estão escritas nas linhas de nossas mãos, lidas por uma cigana. "
― Augusto Boal , Teatro do Oprimido e outras poéticas políticas
12 " A person to whom the oracles had said that he was going to marry his own mother and kill his own father would have to be a little careful and abstain from killing men old enough to be his father or marrying women old enough to be his mother. "
