Pinter's Nobel Acceptance Speech

Art, Truth & Politics

See videos of the lecture or read the text in English, Swedish, French or German, at nobelprize.org.

"... the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives."

"The United States... quite simply doesn't give a damn about the United Nations, international law or critical dissent, which it regards as impotent and irrelevant. It also has its own bleating little lamb tagging behind it on a lead, the pathetic and supine Great Britain."