Augusto Famous Quotes & Sayings
69 Augusto Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.— Augusto Boal
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.— Augusto Roa Bastos
The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.— Augusto Boal
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.— Augusto Roa Bastos
The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.— Augusto Boal
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.— Augusto Pinochet
I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.— Augusto De Luca
There is always time to take more time.— Augusto Roa Bastos
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.— Augusto Roa Bastos
I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.— Augusto Pinochet
I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973 ... These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.— Augusto Pinochet
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.— Augusto Pinochet
My library is filled with UN condemnations.— Augusto Pinochet
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator ... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.— Augusto Pinochet
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.— Augusto Pinochet
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline ... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.— Augusto Pinochet
I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.— Augusto Pinochet
The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.— Augusto Roa Bastos
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.— Augusto Roa Bastos
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.— Augusto Roa Bastos
First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ... Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.— Augusto De Luca
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.— Augusto Roa Bastos
Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.— Augusto Boal
Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.— Augusto Boal
Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides ... A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.— Augusto De Luca
Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment ... Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.— Augusto De Luca
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.— Augusto Roa Bastos
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
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.— Augusto Boal
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
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.— Augusto Pinochet
What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is written to enrich the spirit; that novels have been conceived at the very least, to entertain us; and even, optimistically, that sociological solutions are a guide to solving something. Viewing the situation calmly, I realized that the first (poetry) was capable of impoverishing the richest spirit, the second of boring the most joyful, the third of confusing the most lucid.— Augusto Monterroso
Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties ... I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets.— Augusto De Luca
The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.— Augusto Pinochet
An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances ... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.— Augusto De Luca
The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.— Augusto Pinochet
I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.— Augusto Pinochet
It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.— Augusto Boal
All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.— Augusto De Luca
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.— Augusto Pinochet
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.— Augusto Pinochet
I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.— Augusto Pinochet
Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.— Augusto Boal
Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration ... I assume full political responsibility for what happened.— Augusto Pinochet
When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.— Augusto Monterroso
Easily he had turned studying my least favorite subject in history into my now most memorable one. Then there was his want to make our relationship more real than superficial, something very new to me. Though I was one relationship more knowledgeable than he was, it always felt like he knew more than I did of how relationships where built for the long run. Then again, he could have just learned that from watching his parents or maybe the innocence of our relationship just made him want to keep it pure and real. Like digging deep and wanting to get to know me, not just make out sessions every time we were together. Augusto knew more of the real me, the girl who wants to be a history teacher, enjoys her fries with garlic and cheese, and appreciates when a boy doesn't complain when plans are made with my friends and he isn't a part of them.— Christina Marie Morales
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.— Augusto Pinochet
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.— Augusto De Luca
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.— Augusto Pinochet
Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.— Augusto Boal
Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.— Augusto Pinochet
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.— Augusto Pinochet
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.— Augusto Pinochet
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.— Augusto Pinochet
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.— Augusto Roa Bastos
Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,— Augusto Pinochet
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.— Augusto Roa Bastos
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
Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.— Augusto Boal
The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.— Augusto Roa Bastos
Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man to observe himself in action, in activity. Man can see himself in the act of seeing, in the act of acting, in the act of feeling, the act of thinking. Feel himself feeling, think himself thinking.— Augusto Boal
Empathy is the most powerful weapon [ ... ]— Augusto Boal
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The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.— Augusto Pinochet
I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.— Augusto De Luca
I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.— Augusto Pinochet
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.— Augusto Roa Bastos
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.— Augusto Roa Bastos
Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it.— Augusto Pinochet
Frustrations are the privilege of the living and transcending them is a privilege of the wise.— Augusto Cury
