Language Quote by Slavoj Žižek Download Open image “Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.” — Slavoj Žižek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Matter
Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses. — Richard Dawkins 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 put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image