Ariel Dorfman Quotes & Sayings

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16 most famous Ariel Dorfman quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 81 year old Chilean novelist born on May 6, 1942.

Ariel Dorfman Quotes
“We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.”
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.”
“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 Quotes
“This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.”
Ariel Dorfman Quotes
“We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.”
Ariel Dorfman Quotes
“Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.”
Ariel Dorfman Quotes
“You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.”
Ariel Dorfman Quotes
“Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.”

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