Quotes from Dario Fo

Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.

mejor estar vivos, mientras sigamos vivos!

Un buen cristiano nunca jura su lealtad sobre los Evangelios».

Nunca se prestan cañones a quien puede servirse de ellos para disparar contra nosotros

I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics...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

Health and an able body are two jewels.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

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.

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

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.

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

With comedy I can search for the profound.

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

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.