Pier Paolo Pasolini

“To scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.”

“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that I want to capture. It is the mythical, the epic past that is worth remembering.”

“The corrupting power of the state is the same everywhere.”

“The mark of a true revolutionary is his ability to scandalize.”

“I am a force of the Past. My love is only in tradition.”

“It’s when you’re not scared of anything that you’re most in danger.”

“I believe that to be a writer is to be a witness.”

“I am not interested in coded messages. I am an artist, not a politician.”

“The problem is not to be for or against the consumer society, but to be in it.”

“Culture is an instrument of power. The lower classes have always known this.”

“Nothing is more anachronistic than the present.”

“The sacred is in all reality, even the most degraded, the most sordid, the most obscene.”

“A certain amount of dissent is essential.”

“Technological progress has created a new form of illiteracy.”

“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”

“The language of reality is the language of cinema.”

“The sub-proletariat are the real bearers of an authentic culture.”

“Every fascism is a racism.”

“I believe in that which is mysterious, ineffable, and that is what I have always tried to express.”

“I know. But I don't have the evidence. I don't even have any clues.”