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“Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.”

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A Slovenian philosopher and an influential figure in contemporary Western philosophy. Born on March 21, 1949, Slavoj Žižek is known for his unique Marxist perspective and profound analysis of culture, politics, and film. more

“On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.”

Enjoy Taken Information New York Dear Smoke Guarantees Hotel Guests Regulation Sheets Guarantees That Infringement

Book:First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.”

Kind Littles White Deserve Distance Native Thrive Native American Protestants Anglo Saxon Inverted Away We Go

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.”

Knows Know How Too Much Spending Boat Scotland Scottish Misers

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”

Problem My Own Practice Insight

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.”

Source: Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

“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.”

Differences Struggle Unity Passionate Tolerance Thrive Assertion

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.”

Heard Eating Red Decades Shouting Hamburgers

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.”

Needs Body Spiritual Form Release Programming Software Hardware Tantra

Book:Living in the End Times

Source: Living in the End Times

“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves”

Poor Sacrifice Overcoming Victim Oneself Satisfying

Book:Living in the End Times

Source: Living in the End Times

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