War & Peace Quote by Dario Fo

“Nevertheless” is doing the dirty work here: it implies we’ve already sat through the official story, the solemn speeches, the tidy logic of necessity. Dario Fo snaps the thread with a single pivot and drags the conversation back to what power always wants to blur - the mechanics. Not whether the war was “tragic” or “complex,” but whether it was sold, staged, and played like a con.

Fo’s triad - “the mode, the justification, and all the games” - reads like a forensic inventory of propaganda. “Mode” points to tactics and process: how decisions were made, who got bypassed, what was done in the dark. “Justification” is the public-facing script, the moral alibi. Then he lands on “games,” the most corrosive word in the sentence, because it treats war not as inevitable fate but as managed performance: strategic leaks, inflated threats, patriotic pageantry, media choreography, backroom bargains. “Games” also implicates the audience. If it’s a game, someone is keeping score, someone is betting, someone is meant to be entertained or distracted.

Calling it “dishonest” is sharper than calling it “wrong.” Wrong can be argued; dishonest suggests intent. That’s Fo’s signature as a playwright-satirist: he doesn’t merely mourn victims, he indicts the narrative apparatus that makes victims possible. The line carries the bite of postwar European skepticism and Fo’s lifelong project of exposing institutional hypocrisy - church, state, and the polite middlemen who launder violence into civic virtue.