"Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness. Consumer culture exhausts us. We suffer. We destroy ourselves. And we just can't stop."

-- Renata Salecl

#Giving Quotes #Choices Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.”
“Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!”
“Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.”

Source : Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.289, Oxford University Press
“You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony”

Source : "The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator". Interview With Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2012.
“So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.”
“You handle animals. You deal with people.”
“What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.”
“a self-made martyr is a poor thing.”

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