Elena Ferrante Quotes

They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.

Elena Ferrante

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• Iran humiliated the United States with the capture of our 10 sailors. Horrible pictures & images. We are weak. I will NOT forget!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Forget
  • Weak
  • Horrible

• I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Moments
  • Glad
  • Humiliated

• Just like we do for fire victims every day of the year, we want to meet those needs.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Day
  • Fire
  • Year

• There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • No Doubt

• War loves to seek its victims in the young.

  

  Sophocles
  • War
  • Loves
  • Victims

• For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Poetry
  • Revenge
  • Human being

• We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Enemy
  • Humans
  • Weak

• Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Belief
  • Victims

• The data shows that this is most likely a hundreds-of-thousands to millions of victims issue.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Issue
  • Victims
  • Millions

• Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • People
  • Constitution
  • Civilization

• My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Crime
  • Victims
  • Young Lady

• You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

  

  Bono U2
  • Politics
  • Aids
  • Victims

• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Duty
  • Victims
  • Account

• The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.

  

  Tommy Makem The Clancy Brothers
  • Resources
  • Injustice
  • Victims

• Nut up and flipped in, than slipped the clip in, mistakin' the bloody victims.

  

  Bryon Anthony McCane II Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • Victims
  • Clip

• We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Violence
  • Victims
  • Animals suffer

• No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Name
  • Phenomenon
  • Creates

• Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Beauty
  • Revolutions
  • No Doubt

• For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Victims
  • Civilized
  • Human Sacrifices

• There was simply no doubt in her mind that she would one day find her own prince. He would kiss her, and Elena would Know, and they would Live Happily Ever After.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Kiss
  • Prince
  • No Doubt

• Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.

  

  Katharine Drexel
  • Spirit
  • Self
  • Gift

• We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Use
  • British

• If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Art
  • Leave

• They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Victims
  • No Doubt
  • Humiliated