“Power may be at the end of a gun,” but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
ATTRIBUTION:
Jean Genet (1910–1986), French playwright, novelist. Prisoner of Love, pt. 1 (1986, trans. 1989).
Genet was taking issue with the notion that armed struggle is the only way to achieve revolutionary change. See also Mao Zedong’s comment under “power.”
