Eugene Ionesco Quotes
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.
Ionesco, Eugène. Antidotes. Éditions Gallimard, 1977.
Even in democracies, governments sometimes adopt programs or policies which are not those preferred by a majority of the people. Frequently, a program which has initial public support losses that support yet the government “stays the course”. Legislative and Constitutional complexities sometimes will allow minorities to dictate practices and policies that do not have majority support. In pseudo-democracies and authoritarian regimes the people have little to say in government activities. The result is that there is often a distinction between a society and its government. In many cases foreign opinion of a government and its people are different. America is the classic example, where Americans and American society is much more popular in many nations than is the United States government.
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way.
