Jean Genet Quotes
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. 
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
- Jean Genet
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.
- Jean Genet