Dario Fo Quotes

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves his esteem and respect.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot help but laugh.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

We make fun of our leaders.

Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.