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

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Source : "We need a surreal fantasist like Beppe Grillo to rescue Italy, says Nobel-winning playwright Dario Fo" by Tom Kington, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2013.

Dario Fo

“I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.”
“As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.”

Source : Sir John Vanbrugh (1989). “Four comedies”, Penguin Books
“Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.”
“Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.”

Source : William Cobbett (1933). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”
“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
“Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet.”
“It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.”

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