Dario Fo Quotes

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

Health and an able body are two jewels.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

GIOVANNI: But not all policeman think like you. Some of them like being policeman.
SARGENT: Sure, some guys buy into it. They get off giving orders. They need to oppress somebody else to feel good about themselves.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

Blush at your faults.

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.