We Fell Morally Ill Because We Became

A State That Denies Its Citizens Their Basic Rights Becomes A Danger To Its Neighbors As Well: Internal Arbitrary Rule Will Be Reflected In Arbitrary External Relations. The Suppression Of Public Opinion, The Abolition Of Public Competition For Power And Its Public Exercise Opens The Way For The State Power To Arm Itself In Any Way It Sees Fit.... A State That Does Not Hesitate To Lie To Its Own People Will Not Hesitate To Lie To Other States.

It's Not Hard To Stand Behind One's Successes. But To Accept Responsibility For One's Failures... That Is Devishly Hard!

It's Not True That You Should First Think Up An Idea For A Better World And Only Then "put It Into Practice," But, Rather, Through The Fact Of Your Existence In The World, You Create The Idea Or Manifest It - Create It, As It Were, From The "material Of The World," Articulate It In The "language Of The World."

Speaking About Myself, I've Been Pleasantly Surprised That My Older Plays Are Still Being Performed. Most Important Is That They Still Have Something To Say To Today's Audience, In Particular The Young People Who Enjoy My Plays. That's The Best I Could Hope For, That The Plays Aren't Single-use Products Of One Era.

The Cliché Organizes Life; It Expropriates People's Identity; It Becomes Ruler, Defense Lawyer, Judge, And The Law.