Dario Fo

“Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.”

“With comedy I can search for the profound.”

“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.”

“Laughter does not please the mighty.”

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

“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.”

“Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.”

“It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.”

“While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.”

“It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.”

“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.'”

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

“I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.”

“Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.”

“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.”

“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.”

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

“At the root of everything I write is tragedy.”

“Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.”

“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.”