All Ariel Dorfman Quotes
- Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and… Always Manages
- Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our… Abrogation
- Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous… All
- I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die,… Been
- Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. Age
- I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels. Angel
- I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world. Feel
- I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me. All
- Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. Already Left
- There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes… Among
- This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need. America
- Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress. Cannot Possibly
- We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. Hope
- We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. Age
- You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever. Anger
- I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and… Alone
- Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an… Accident
- You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language… Body