Albert Memmi Quotes on Politics
Albert Memmi was a Tunisian-French Jewish philosopher, novelist, and essayist whose The Colonizer and the Colonized became one of the founding texts of postcolonial thought, with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. This page collects quotes attributed to Albert Memmi on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Albert Memmi:
“The colonizer cannot stop himself from being a colonizer; the colonized cannot easily stop himself from being colonized.”
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Attributed to Albert Memmi:
“Privilege is a deformation of the privileged.”
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Attributed to Albert Memmi:
“Decolonization is not the end of the colonial relation; it is the beginning of its long working out.”
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“It was in the Passage that I discovered tribal life and learned to hate it. How happy had been the intimacy of our blind alley, now lost for good! As long as I had lived alone, I had lived in peace.”
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“Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous adventures, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge.”
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“If my nose had been too long that might have been fixed in a couple of weeks in a clinic, or a gangrenous arm could be amputated, but I had a heart that was defective. My misfortunes were never chance encounters, and I could not easily avoid them. The more I get to know myself, the more aware I become of this. To put an end to this state of affairs would mean putting an end to myself, to die or to go mad. My principal's temporary appointment would end one day, but I would never find the solution to my problem because I am that problem.”
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