Harold Pinter citáty
Harold Pinter
Datum narození: 10. říjen 1930
Datum úmrtí: 24. prosinec 2008
Harold Pinter [pintr], známý též pod pseudonymy Horold Pinta a David Baron, byl anglický dramatik a básník, herec a politický aktivista, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 2005.
Citáty Harold Pinter
„One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.“
— Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Context: The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. (14)
„I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth.“
— Harold Pinter
Pinter on Pinter in The Observer (1980)
„The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state terrorism on the part of the United States over many years, in all parts of the world.
I believe that it will do this not only to take control of Iraqi oil, but also because the American administration is now a blood-thirsty wild animal.“
— Harold Pinter
Referring to the 9/11 attacks, in [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/12/11/do1101.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2002/12/11/ixopinion.html "The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal"], The Telegraph (12 November 2002), published version of speech made upon accepting an honorary doctorate from University of Turin in 2002.
„The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959, and where despite the economic blockade, there are levels of health, education and culture that are internationally recognised.“
— Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter, et al. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1445897,00.html "Letters: Human Rights and Cuba"], The Guardian (26 Mar. 2005). Pinter was a signatory.
„Sandinistas are a democratically elected government which originally led a popular revolution to overthrow a dictatorship based on slavery...
US foreign policy could be best defined as follows: kiss my arse or I'll kick your head in. It is as simple and as crude as that. It can hardly be said to be a complicated foreign policy. What is interesting about it is that it is so incredibly successful. It possesses the structures of disinformation, use of rhetoric, distortion of language, which are very persuasive, but are actually a pack of lies. It is very successful propaganda. They have the money, they have the technology, they have all the means to get away with it, and they do. I find the ignorance in this country, Britain, and certainly the US, really quite deep. It is not only the Republican Party and government in the US which are responsible for this state of affairs, but I see the Democrats as only differing by degrees. While they say "no more military aid to the Contras"… they are still referring to an innate and deeply embedded assumption that they are talking about a Marxist-Leninist totalitarian dictatorship; gangsters, thugs, instructed from Moscow.“
— Harold Pinter
Quoted in an [http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/politics_america.shtml interview], conducted by Andrew Graham-Yooll, South Magazine (May 1988)
