Quotes by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

…the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Church

Heart

States

An artist, if he’s unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

Artist

Mouths

Passionate

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

Light

Resistance

World

Death does determine life.

Doe

Inspire

Life

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Add

Doe

Important

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

Football

Lasts

Sacred

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

Fashion

Hate

Want

I don’t believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

Believe

Men

Politician

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

Pleasure

Refuse

Thinking

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Belief

May

Nostalgia

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Ambiguous

Anxiety

Artist

Belief

Believe

Changed

Church

Demand

Doe

Dream

Ends

Evil

Exclusion

Fashion

Football

Hands

Hate

Heart

Hero

Important

Inspirational

Inspire

Lasts

Life

Life Is

Light

Longing

Love Life

Lying

May

Mean

Men

Motivational

Mouths

Nostalgia

Pain

Passion

Passionate

People

Pleasure

Politician

Progressive

Real

Reality

Refuse

Resistance

Revolution

Sacred

Sentiments

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Quotes by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

…the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

Death does determine life.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

I don’t believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

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