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.

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.