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Man Quotes by Frantz Fanon
- Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being…
- Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people…
- In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of…
- To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach…
- For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set…
- What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call…
- The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type…
- For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
- When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche…
- It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.
- No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.
- I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego…
- However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one…
- Violence is man re-creating himself.
- O my body, make of me always a man who questions!
- I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the…
- I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That…
- A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
- The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle