John P. DeRosa

“Fundamentalist Islamic terror is not grounded in the terrorists’ conviction of their superiority and in their desire to safeguard their cultural-religious identity from the onslaught of global consumerist civilization.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism

“Fundamentalist Islamic terror is not grounded in the terrorists’ conviction of their superiority and in their desire to safeguard their cultural-religious identity from the onslaught of global consumerist civilization. The problem with fundamentalists is not that we consider them inferior to us, but, rather, that they themselves secretly consider themselves inferior.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism

“The great question which in all ages has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities, depopulated countries, and disordered the peace of the world, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.”
― John Locke, Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium