Frantz Fanon Violence Quotes & Sayings

You need to believe in your success, only then the world will believe you — Sunday Adelaja

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death. — Robert A. Heinlein

Don't worry, I'll figure out a way to make you pay me back." His stomach growled as he turned onto Main Street. "But first, dinner and then some pie."
"I don't know what Ruby Sue puts in it, but it's addictive." She giggled. "I think you need to investigate."
"If by 'investigate', you mean eat it, then I'm all for it. — Avery Flynn

Sorry," he muttered as he pulled it away. "Sure," I said faintly. "Sure." I wondered how to go about asking him to poke me with his sword again. — T.J. Klune

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect — Frantz Fanon

Demanding yet denying the human condition makes for an explosive contradiction. And explode it does, as you and I know. And we live in an age of conflagration: it only needs the rising birth rate to worsen the food shortage, it only needs the newly born to fear living a little more than dying, and for the torrent of violence to sweep away all the barriers. In Algeria and Angola, Europeans are massacred on sight. This is the age of the boomerang, the third stage of violence: it flies right back at us, it strikes us and, once again, we have no idea what hit us. — Frantz Fanon

Few characters in history are indispensable. — Albert Bushnell Hart

Violence is man re-creating himself. — Frantz Fanon

In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action maintain contact with the native and advise him by means of rifle butts and napalm not to budge. It is obvious here that the agents of government speak the language of pure force — Frantz Fanon

And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength. — Frantz Fanon

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. — Frantz Fanon

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure. — Tananarive Due

A canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting. — Irving Stone