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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.