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

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. – Jean Genet

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Success
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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

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Racism
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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

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Dreams
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx

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History

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. – James K. Polk

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History

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. – Aristotle

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History

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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History

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I wont take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. – Carl Sandburg

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