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Dario Fo

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

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

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

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"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."

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"Democracy passes into despotism."

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"Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for."

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"Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols."

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"I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation."

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"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."

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"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"

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"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."
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"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."
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"When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories."
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"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."
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"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression."
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"Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control."
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