Top 19 The Wretched Of The Earth Quotes
#1. The colonized, underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term. Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
#2. The wretched of the Earth, he calls us. People too poor to afford cable and too stupid to know that they aren't missing anything.
Paul Beatty
#4. The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
James A. Baldwin
#5. Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#6. Under Bernie Sanders, Western workers would definitely do much better, but the rest of the world, the "wretched of the Earth" would still have to pay the bill.
Andre Vltchek
#7. I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.
Huey Newton
#8. Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
Steven Pinker
#9. Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth
Christopher Hitchens
#10. then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I
Naomi Novik
#11. I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
#12. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.
Thornton Wilder
#13. Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.
John Buchan
#14. Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the daemon within him,
Various
#15. They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
Lester Bangs
#16. I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate
even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth. Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness)
Norman Cousins
#17. From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
James Cook
#18. Hast thou, then, nothing more to mention? Com'st ever, thus, with ill intention? Find'st nothing right on earth, eternally? MEPHISTOPHELES No, Lord! I find things, there, still bad as they can be. Man's misery even to pity moves my nature; I've scarce the heart to plague the wretched creature.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#19. Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
Homer
