Dario Fo Quotes

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

People like to quiet the speech of others.

The media is controlled.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Repression is fantastic.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

Force is not a remedy.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

Power tends to get confused with repression.