"True universalists are not those who preach global……" — Slavoj Žižek
"True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them."
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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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The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than…
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Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which…
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