"Politicians - power itself - are abject because……" — Jean Baudrillard
"Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power."
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Jean Baudrillard
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137 Quotes by Jean Baudrillard
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to…
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him…
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or…
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon…
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over…
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