Dario Fo
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Quotes
[edit]- When you put on a mask, you cannot lie. The mask is born with man because the mask and the party ensure that everything is a joke, everything is for laughter. Long live the mask that gives everyone the chance for another life, within parentheses of freedom without paying taxes. Satire is the most effective weapon against power: power cannot tolerate humor, not even rulers who call themselves democrats, because laughter frees man from his fears.
- Fo (2008), pp. 14-15.
- There is no greater equation than the stupidity of men, especially when those men are in power.
- Men are lying when they say they are terrified of blood.
- Original: There is no greater equation than the stupidity of men, especially
- Especially when these men are in power.
- Fo, Dario. Plays, One. Reprinted edition. Methuen Drama, 1992
- Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is freedom. We have only one idea: revolution in our hearts.
