Justice & Law Quote by Dario Fo

Borderless belonging is the first provocation here: “Our homeland is the whole world” rejects the cozy romance of nation as destiny and replaces it with a touring company’s map - porous, improvised, and suspicious of borders that exist mainly to sort bodies into winners and the disposable. That’s pure Dario Fo: the trickster-playwright who treated authority like a bad prop, something you kick once and watch wobble.

The line’s engine is its rhetorical escalation. Homeland, law, thought: Fo walks the reader up the pillars of civic life and swaps each one for an insurgent equivalent. The substitution is the subtext. If your homeland is global, then the state’s claim on your loyalty shrinks. If your law is liberty, then legality becomes a suspect category - a costume power wears to look inevitable. “We have but one thought” borrows the language of doctrine to sell the opposite of obedience: revolution as an inner discipline, not a party platform.

Context matters because Fo’s career was a long duel with official culture. In postwar Italy, with Cold War paranoia, Catholic moral policing, labor unrest, and state violence never far offstage, his theater made farce do the work of reportage. He wrote for audiences who already knew that “order” could mean batons and “decency” could mean silence. So the quote isn’t dreamy internationalism; it’s a recruitment poster in the dialect of art: a vow to keep the heart ungovernable even when the laws insist you behave.