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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.



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



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



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



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Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.



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