Who said “The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work…”?

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

“The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.”

“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”

“The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.”

“It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.”

“There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.”

“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”

“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.”

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests”