"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."

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"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."

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"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

John Green, American Author

Society, Absence, Media, Reality, Celebrity

"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Society, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Society, Truth, Power, Regret, Today

"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Violence, Terrorism, Conformity

"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

John Green, American Author

Society, Feminism, Expression, Art, Power

"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Society, Purity, Values, Competition, Selfishness

"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Society, Judgment, Behavior, Truth, Humanity

"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Woman, Mother, Sister, Daughter

"A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Country, Wealth, Ideas

"Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Society, Humanity, Truth, Justice, Equality

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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."

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"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."

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"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."

People

"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."

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"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."

Job

"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."

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"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."

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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

"A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas."

"Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both."

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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."

"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."

"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice."

"Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur."

"I'm interested in the real world."

"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."

"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."

"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."

"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."

"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."