“Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.”

“We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.”

“Freedom from one man is just another one.”

“A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isnt wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being humanand isnt granting ...”

“Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigr...”

“Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.”

“It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportun...”

“In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.”

“The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been d...”

“A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.”

“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”

“Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wantin...”

“Once and for allthe idea of glorious victorieswon by the glorious armymust be wiped outNeither side is gloriousOn either side they're just frightened men messing their pantsand they all want the sa...”

“It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.”

“Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible you are in the driving-seat. ”