Jean Genet Quotes

Most Famous Jean Genet Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best jean-genet quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Jean Genet Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Popular Quotes Topics for You.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

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

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

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

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.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

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, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

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

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

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

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Jean Genet Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.