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On Liberty and Ot...
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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

Thomas Szasz
“It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.”
Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

Karl Marx
“All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.”
Karl Marx

Frankie Boyle
“For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)”
Frankie Boyle

Eric J. Hobsbawm
“It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.”
Eric Hobsbawm, How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

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