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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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“You, who are so liberal and so humane, who have such an exaggerated adoration of culture that it verges on affectation, you pretend to forget that you own colonies and that in them men are massacred in your name.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: Christian Thought, Catholic Guilt, Secularized Theology
“Will we recover? Yes. For violence, like Achilles’ lance, can heal the wounds that it has inflicted.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: Fighting, Violence, Obama vs. Sartre
“Our victims know us by their scars and by their chains, and it is this that makes their evidence irrefutable.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: Violence, Colonization, Scars, Nightmare of History
“Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his humanity.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: The Aestheticization of Violence, Violence, Violence As The New
“You will have to fight, or rot in concentration camps.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth”
Tagged: Fighting, Violence
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
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