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Man Quotes by Jean Genet
- The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens…
- What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder…
- Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves,…
- The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
- Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
- A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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