Daily Inspiration Quote by Dario Fo

Fo’s warning about “limits or borders” is less a civics lesson than a stage direction. Coming from a playwright who spent decades baiting power with farce, police satire, and street-theater insolence, the line treats boundaries as the first prop of authority: once you accept the frame, you’ve accepted the rules of the scene. “Extremely dangerous” isn’t melodrama; it’s a diagnosis of how quickly talk of borders hardens into exclusion, then into policing, then into violence. In Italy’s postwar churn, with fascism’s residues still palpable and the state often anxious about dissent, borders weren’t only geographic. They were moral categories (“respectable” vs. “subversive”), class partitions, and the soft censorship of who gets to speak.

The subtext is a jab at spectatorship. Fo distrusts the comfort of having an opinion without having skin in the room. “Completely open” and “always involved” reads like the opposite of liberal self-branding; it’s a call to messy participation, the kind that risks embarrassment, conflict, and consequence. His phrasing refuses the tidy heroism of “activism” as identity and insists on contribution “personally,” a word that drags politics out of slogans and back into bodies, neighborhoods, workplaces.

It also carries Fo’s signature irony: the man who made a career out of crossing lines understands that “limits” are often sold as maturity, prudence, realism. He flips the script. The real danger, he implies, isn’t the chaos of openness; it’s the quiet brutality of closed systems that learn to sound reasonable.