Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Crime and Criminals
Quotations by Jean Genet
Quotes :
- Henry Steele Commager – history "For a people to be without history, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a man to be without memory - condemned forever to make the same discoveries that have been made in the past, invent the same techniques, wrestle with the same problems, commit the same errors; and condemned, too, to forfeit the rich pleasures of recollection. Indeed, just as it…
- FOOD FOR THOUGHT: The One Who Walks In "When you are up in life, your friends get to know who you are. But when you are down in life, you get to know who your friends are. There will be many people who will be great to be around when times are easy, and when there are no worries, instead take note of the people who remain in your life when times are…
- A THOUGHT TO PONDER: REAL COMMUNITY "People who use computers to communicate, form friendships that sometimes form the basis of communities, but you have to be careful to not mistake the tool for the task and think that just writing words on a screen is the same thing as real community." ~Harold Rheingold
- Meridel Le Sueur – Labor “Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.” ~Meridel Le Sueur