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

• In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Killed
  • Victims
  • Collapse

• Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Scene
  • Mouths
  • Humiliated

• In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Life
  • World
  • Seems

• Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

  

  William Petersen
  • Thinking
  • Stars
  • Hollywood

• In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

  

  Serge Schmemann
  • Leader
  • Tough
  • Truck

• 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