Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to first of all the environment in which it's being staged then the audience the nature of the audience the quality of the audience.
Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.
As a boy I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
When I was a teenager I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
In the theater it's about taking time in a musical segment a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
I love bad movies whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it or I wouldn't do it but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.