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Quote by Jean Genet
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. T

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

Other quotes by Jean Genet

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 if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches. – Jean Genet

Category:
Racism
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Jean Genet
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent — or they themselves — was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. – Jean Genet

Category:
Delinquency
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Jean Genet
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. – Jean Genet

Category:
Dreams
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Jean Genet
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Other Quotes from
History
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. – V. S. Naipaul

Category:
History

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. – Neale Donald Walsch

Category:
History

Take from the altars of the past the fire – not the ashes. – Jean Jaures

Category:
History

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher

Category:
History

Random Quotes

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. – Mark Twain

Category:
Religion

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Time

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran

Category:
Generosity

A horse is the projection of peoples dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. – Pam Brown

Category:
Dreams