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

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

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

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...

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true...

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true...

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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'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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...