Rafael Munia

“there is nothing arrogant about mentioning ordinary people’s material concerns: the poor have the right to do it, and to talk about a readiness for great sacrifices, or suffering ‘whatever the price’, is as a rule the ideology of the privileged, who are quite content to let the people suffer for them.”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

“So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990

“Maybe that’s what religion is: a god ersatz rather than his affirmation.”
― Marcus Steinweg, Inconsistencies

“The negativity of otherness or foreignness is de-interiorized and transformed into the positivity of communicable and consumable difference: ‘diversity’.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power