Quote by Jean Genet
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fo

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

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

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Racism
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. – Jean Genet

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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadnt had an audience, and lines to speak? – Jean Genet

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. – Rudyard Kipling

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Delinquency

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways? – William Shakespeare

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Delinquency

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They dont know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – Anthony Burgess

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Delinquency

He that seeks trouble never misses. – English Proverb

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Delinquency

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Were real people and were a band thats been playing on the scene for a long time. Weve made a lot of friends, and one enemy weve always had was the NME. Theyve always basically slated us and theyve basically never ever written about the music. – Dan Hawkins

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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. – Benjamin Banneker

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