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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

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You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Slavoj Zizek
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
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I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
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Slavoj Zizek
Communism will win.
Slavoj Zizek
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Slavoj Zizek
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
Slavoj Zizek
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
Slavoj Zizek
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
Slavoj Zizek
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
Slavoj Zizek
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Slavoj Zizek
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Slavoj Zizek
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is Leave me alone dont harass me Im intolerant towards your over proximity.
Slavoj Zizek
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.
Slavoj Zizek
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Jerome K. Jerome
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Doug Coupland
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Mark Akenside
And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.
Todd Solondz
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
Brit Hume
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
Amy Lee
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Gustav Mahler
They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.
Jello Biafra
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
Doug Coupland
There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
Bob Graham
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
Pam Gems
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus
Naked is the best disguise.
Jeanette Winterson
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
David Herbert Lawrence
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Thomas More
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
Jonathan Mayhew
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Arthur Erickson
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
Slavoj Zizek
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Bishop Robert South
You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
Allan Dwan
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
Judy Chicago
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
Alex Campbell
Hills are speedwork in disguise.
Frank Shorter
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
Cathy Guisewite
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
Kitty O'Neill Collins