"Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system"

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Source : Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

Giorgio Agamben

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“A generation which ignores history has no past â€” and no future.”
“Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.”

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“The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.”
“And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.”
“Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.”

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“I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.”
“When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.”

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“Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.”

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