Mohamed Aeed

“Over the last several months, public figures from the Pope downwards have bombarded us with the injunctions to fight against the culture of excessive greed and consumption. This disgusting spectacle of cheap moralization is an ideological operation if there ever was one: the compulsion (to expand) inscribed into the system itself is translated into a matter of personal sin, a private psychological propensity. The self-propelling circulation of Capital thus remains more than ever the ultimate Real of our lives, a beast that by definition cannot be controlled, since it itself controls our activity, blinding us to even the most obvious dangers we are courting.”
― Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

“The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash, illuminates the features of the new world.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

“The hunger for believing in good things, usually turns up as starvation.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo

“In Marx's entire oeuvre, I don't think there is a single disinterested reflection on death... I was pondering this at his grave in Highgate.”
― Emil M. Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms