Secil

“It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk.
What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust

“Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.”
― David Graeber, Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire