Quotes by Dario Fo

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

“Real socialism is inside man. It wasnt born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You cant say it is finished.”

“Know how to live the time that is given you.”

“We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ...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.”

“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.”

“When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.”

“It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who live only 20 years, but many, many people remember them because they knew how to live the time that was given to them. Im not suggesting that you should live only 20 years. Live as long as you can, but from time to time, think 20 years, 20 years, 20 years, and put them together.”

“We must hold primary elections to choose the center-left candidate for mayor of Milan,”

“I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could not actually invent.”

Know how to live the time that is given you.

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