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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Lying can never save us from another lie.
People, your Government has returned to you!
Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.
All human suffering concerns each human being.
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.
Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it
Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.
Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.
To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.
Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
