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Ahmed Sofa
“একটি সমাজের সর্বাঙ্গীন গতির নাম রাজনীতি এবং সংস্কৃতি রাজনীতির রস-রক্ত, এই বোধে কোন রাজনৈতিক দল কিংবা লোকমান্য নেতার মন সিঞ্চিত হয়েছে, তেমন কোন দল বা ব্যক্তিত্বের নাম আজও জানা হয়নি। রাজনৈতিক দলগুলোর সংস্কৃতিবিমুখতা, কর্মীদের চেতনাহীনতা, সংস্কৃতি এবং রাজনীতিকে দু’টি আলাদা আলাদা ক্ষেত্র বলে চিহ্নিত করল। ফরাসি লেখক আলফাস দোঁদের একটি গল্পের কথা মনে পড়ছে। ফরাসিরা যুদ্ধে মার খেয়েছে, গল্পের নায়ক খুবই আশাহত হয়ে পড়েছে, আরেকজন তাঁকে উপদেশ দিচ্ছে ফরাসি সাহিত্য পড়ার। তার মানে ফরাসি সাহিত্যের মধ্যে এমন কিছু প্রাণদায়িনী উপকরণ রয়েছে, যার প্রভাবে নায়ক যুদ্ধে পরাজয়ের হতাশা কাটিয়ে উঠতে পারবে। পুরোপুরি না হোক, আংশিকভাবেও যদি আমাদের জাতি এই মনোভঙ্গি আয়ত্ত করতে না পারে, তাহলে বলতে হয় আমাদের বর্বর-দশা এখনও কাটেনি।”
― আহমদ ছফা, সাম্প্রতিক বিবেচনা: বুদ্ধিবৃত্তির নতুন বিন্যাস

Slavoj Žižek
“What would be my, how should I call it, spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It's a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity: there is nothing, basically. I mean it quite literally, like… ultimately there are just some fragments, some vanishing things. If you look at the universe, it's one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics, where, you know, the idea there is that universe is a void, but a kind of a positively charged void. And then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea of spontaneous very much that the fact that it's just not nothing… Things are out there. It means something went terribly wrong… that what we call creation is a kind of a cosmic imbalance, cosmic catastrophe, that things exist by mistake. And I'm even ready to go to the end and to claim that the only way to counteract it is to assume the mistake and go to the end. And we have a name for this. It's called love. Isn't love precisely this kind of a cosmic imbalance? I was always disgusted with this notion of "I love the world" universal love. I don't like the world. I don't know how… Basically, I'm somewhere in between “I hate the world” or “I'm indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality, it's just it. It's stupid. It is out there. I don't care about it. Love, for me, is an extremely violent act. Love is not “I love you all.” Love means I pick out something, and it's, again, this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail… a fragile individual person… I say “I love you more than anything else.” In this quite formal sense, love is evil.”
― Slavoj Žižek

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

Oscar Wilde
“The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.”
― Oscar Wilde

Karl Marx
“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
― Karl Marx

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