Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. |
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. |
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out |
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out |
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out |
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. |
I can imagine this is something that will last quite a while, |
I feel with leaving office I will enter a new realm of great freedom than I have had ... and I will speak more freely, |
I felt the need to stir things up, ... To confront others for a change and force them to deal with a situation that I myself had created. |
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. |
I still very well remember the moment in 1978 when me and my friends learned that Karol Wojtyla was elected the pope. It was a moment of an immense joy for us. I even think that we were so delighted that we danced for joy. |
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. |
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. |
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. |
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity... |