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“العقل ليس وعاء يجب ملؤه بل نار يجب ايقادها
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire that must be kindled.”
― Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
― Slavoj Zizek

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”
― Slavoj Žižek