HEART OF DARKNESS QUOTES ABOUT RACISM

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it” – Marlow

“The mind of man is capable of anything – because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.” – Marlow

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force – nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others” – Marlow

“What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea… something you can set up against a man and knock him down with; and he’s more than half persuaded that’s as it should be.” – Marlow

“It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind-as is very proper for those who tackle darkness.” – Marlow

“It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—the suspicion of their not being inhuman.” – Marlow

“I felt how true it was. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” – Marlow

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.” – Marlow

“It was as unreal as everything else—as the philanthropic pretense of the whole concern, as their talk, as their government, as their show of work” – Marlow

“I let him run on, this papier-mâché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.” – Marlow

“It was a moment of triumph for the wilderness, an invading and vengeful rush which, it seemed to me, I would have to keep back alone for the salvation of another soul” – Marlow

“It is not my habit to be dramatic. Neither would he if he understood.” – Marlow MOTHERS DAY IN ISLAM QUOTES

“The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free” – Marlow

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the jungles, in the daytime, was now silent as the grave” – Marlow

“The only real feeling was a desire to get appointed to a trading-post where ivory was to be had, so that they could earn percentages” – Marlow

“Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage” – Marlow

“You know, I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest” – Marlow

“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence, that which makes its truth, its meaning–its subtle and penetrating essence” – Marlow

“I had got a heavenly mission to civilize you.” – Kurtz

“Exterminate all the brutes!” – Kurtz

“The horror! The horror!” – Kurtz

“Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Evil! I shouted, and the echo answered Evil!” – Marlow