Frantz Fanon Quotes

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat

We contend against reason, philosophy, and nature itself; forget the great rule of doing to others as we would they should do unto us ; and after wasting our blood and treasure to no purpose, we at last sit down faint and exhausted, abandon our vain projects only because it is impossible to pursue them, and then leave it to the reasoners of a succeeding age to show how egregious has been our folly, and how blind our fury.

The best instituted governments carry in them the seeds of their own destruction; and though they grow and improve for a time, they will soon tend visibly to their dissolution. Every hour that they live is an hour less that they have to live.

In the United States no trend ever arrives at its logical conclusion.

It is the definition of tragedy. You have all those really good arguments for maintaining a status quo that will destroy you…. We are setting ourselves on fire with the best of arguments.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

The economic system is acting like a cancer on humanity. The regulatory system, the accountants, the legal firms support the metastasizing of this cancer.

None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

Most societies die of suicide, not attack.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

The path that we are headed on economically in America is one that leads to total ruination of the American system.

Winning slowly is another way of losing. Americans are screwing up our health care system again right now. That's going to cause grave trouble for people over the next five, 10 years. There are going to be lots of people who die, lots of people who are sick. It's going to be horrible. But 10 years from now it will not be harder to solve the problem because you ignored it for those 10 years. With climate change, that's not true. As each year passes, we move past certain physical tipping points that make it impossible to recover large parts of the world that we have known.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.