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Slavoj Žižek Quotes: Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.
         

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


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I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.



We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.



Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.



Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.



Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.



The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.





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