
“La vraie supériorité du blanc, ce sont ses larmes.”
Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
Citation rapportée
Une collection de citations sur le thème de supériorité, tout, homme, pluie.
“La vraie supériorité du blanc, ce sont ses larmes.”
Citation extraite de Le monde s’effondre ( Things Fall Apart ), paru en 1958.
Citation rapportée
We can destroy animals more easily than they can destroy us; that is the only solid basis of our claim to superiority. We value art and science and literature, because these are things in which we excel. But whales might value spouting, and donkey might maintain that a good bray is more exquisite than the music of Bach. We cannot prove them wrong except by the exercise of arbitrary power. All ethical systems, in the last analysis, depend upon weapons of war.
en
Supériorité de l'espèce humaine basée sur le pouvoir arbitraire (1931-33)
F. M. et front populaire
I will say, then, that I am not nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the White and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of
Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858
There is no end to the war and death caused by man or to the tears shed by all the innocent victims of such tragedies. What were all these for? Only for conquering, establishing superiority and satisfying our greed for money and fame? Mankind has taken upon itself countless curses. In order to attain freedom from these curses, at least a hundred generations to come should wipe the tears of the suffering, striving to console them and alleviate their pain. At least now, as an atonement, shouldn’t we try to introspect?
La Compassion: La seule voie vers la paix (2007)
Recueil de nouvelles, La Dame à la Louve, 1904, La Soif ricane
Sur les sciences
Mahomet et le Coran, 1865
grc
À propos des sophistes de l'école d'Antisthène et de celle de Protagoras.
Éloge d'Hélène
Séance du 18 juillet 1789
Discours
Light on the Ancient Worlds
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Mémoires de sept vies. Tome 2 : Croire et Oser, 1997