"The true ethical test is not only the……" — Slavoj Žižek
"The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims."
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38 Quotes by Slavoj Žižek
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We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our…
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My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask…
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I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I…
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I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all…
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When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
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On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully…
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For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans…
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We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending…
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Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
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Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a…
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True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a…
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The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than…
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
— Sylvia Plath
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Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its…
— Andrew Marvell
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better…
— Yiyun Li
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By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore…
— Jennifer Beals
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You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential…
— Jennifer Beals
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It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness,…
— Pamela Geller
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins,…
— John Milton
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A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each…
— Michael Silverblatt
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It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all…
— Oswald Spengler
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I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on.
— Edmund Kemper
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By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in…
— Arthur Symons
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