"The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on."

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Source : Slavoj Žižek (2014). “Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism”, p.170, Penguin UK

Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Goes On Quotes #Today Quotes #Pseudo Quotes

“Donâ€™t hide your scars. They make you who you are”
“I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.491, Macmillan
“If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.”
“I canâ€™t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.”
“Don't confuse having a career with having a life.”
“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”
“As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.”
“I think for a lot of new bands, although they have a lot of opportunity, this music business is not giving them a long-term career. I think there's some terrible stuff that comes out and we are bombarded by likes of The X Factor, Pop Idol and all those programs that I don't really like and I don't approve of.”

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