Ariel Dorfman

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.' Ariel Dorfman

Blessings Home Life

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. Ariel Dorfman

Age Exile Live

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 is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates. Ariel Dorfman

about violence Body Humanity

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 identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness. Ariel Dorfman

Always Game Identity

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. Ariel Dorfman

Hope Imagination Live

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 that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history. Ariel Dorfman

Darkness History Men

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

America Country Greed

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

Fate Power Responsibility

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever. Ariel Dorfman

Anger Forever Live

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.' Ariel Dorfman

Home Life Silence