Barbarity Quote by Slavoj Žižek Download Open image “What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?” — Slavoj Žižek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barbarity Break Break Respite Culture Culture Halt Halt Halt Break Ifs Pursuit Respite What if
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?" — LeCrae Copy Share Image
There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We know a culture doesn't just happen; it is the result of what you do every day. — Ron Williams 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
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the… — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity,… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The Damned Axe by Stewart Stafford The axe decapitates a head, Society's ills get quickly shed, Can we trust what we don't see? The… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image