Shame Quote by Ariel Dorfman

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

— Ariel Dorfman

Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some…

— Ariel Dorfman

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions,…

— Ariel Dorfman

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that…

— Ariel Dorfman

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to…

— Ariel Dorfman

“She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I…

— Ariel Dorfman

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

— Ariel Dorfman

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

— Ariel Dorfman

Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the…

— Ariel Dorfman

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

— Ariel Dorfman

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

— Ariel Dorfman

Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not…

— Ariel Dorfman