Harold Pinter

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Harold Pinter (born October 10, 1930) is a British playwright and theatre director. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.

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• There are emergency plans for America to take over this country.
  • Pinter in The Independent, 1988.

• The Sandinistas are a democratically elected government which originally led a popular revolution to overthrow a dictatorship based on slavery.
  • Interview in South Magazine, May 1988 by Andrew Graham-Yooll. [1]

• I believe the United States is a truly monstrous force in the world
  • Pinter in 1993. Quoted in FrontPage magazine, October 19, 2005. [2]

• In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
  • Extent from an article entitled "Carribean Cold War", Red Pepper, May 1996. [3]

• I believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him.
  • Pinter on the arrest of Slobodan Milošević. Quoted in The Guardian, July 26, 2001. [4]

• 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.
  • Pinter in a speech, referring to the 9/11 attacks, while receiving an honorary doctorate from Turn University in 2002. [5]

• I believe that it will do this not only to take control of Iraqi oil, but also because the American administration is now a bloodthirsty wild animal.
  • Pinter in a speech while receiving an honorary doctorate from Turn University in 2002. [6]

• The U.S. is really beyond reason now. It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they are prepared to do. There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany.
  • Speech at the National Theatre in London. June 10, 2003. [7]

• Nazi Germany wanted total domination of Europe and they nearly did it. The U.S. wants total domination of the world and is about to consolidate that.
  • Speech at the National Theatre in London. June 10, 2003. [8]

• Blair sees himself as a representative of moral rectitude. He is actually a mass murderer. But we forget that - we are as much victims of delusions as Americans are.
  • Speech at the National Theatre in London. June 10, 2003. [9]

• 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.
  • Appeal signed by Pinter in The Guardian, March 26, 2005. [10]

• Hallelullah!
  It works.
  We blew the shit out of them.
  
  We blew the shit right back up their own ass
  And out their fucking ears.
  
  It works.
  We blew the shit out of them.
  They suffocated in their own shit!
  
  Hallelullah.
  Praise the Lord for all good things.
  
  We blew them into fucking shit.
  They are eating it.
  
  Praise the Lord for all good things.
  
  We blew their balls into shards of dust,
  Into shards of fucking dust.
  
  We did it.
  
  Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
  • American Football - A Reflection on the Gulf War (1991)

External links

The Official Harold Pinter Website

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