Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Quote by Jean Genet

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I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know...

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know...

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American...

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American...

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They...

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They...

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young...

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young...

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of...

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of...

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and...

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming...

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming...

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience,...

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience,...

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep...

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep...

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state,...

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state,...

It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have...

It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have...

At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem...it just creates new...

At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem...it just creates new...