Stalinism Quote by Slavoj Žižek Download Open image “In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.” — Slavoj Žižek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stalinism Victim Way
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you? — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much was left… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers'… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
“The psychological and political reasons to overcompensate by insisting on victimhood were strong.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the erosion of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’. ‘Crab soup’… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“If your case, as a politically repressed person, is reviewed by the Special Council, you are almost guaranteed the standard sentence: ten years in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept of guilt… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.” — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
