"When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!"

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Source : Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.4, Verso

Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.”

Source : Interview with Mihai Budiu, www.cs.cmu.edu. July 2000.
“I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.”
“Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a car chase movie. All our songs were based on movies, every single song. I love movies, and that was something that me and the singer in Two Lane Blacktop bonded over - we were design students together, we did a film-class together, so we became obsessed with movies. It's followed me around ever since then, it's a constant theme.”
“An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.”
“Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.”
“And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with like two cameras and that's it. And I wanted to do something where there was like action and running and you know crowd scenes and big set pieces and certainly did a lot of that, so yeah.”
“Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.”

Source : "Can Stockwell Day separate church from state?" by Gordon Laird, www.theglobeandmail.com. July 17, 2000.
“She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.”

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