Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World Quotes

“Hegel wrote that the only thing we can learn from history is that we learn nothing from history, so I doubt the epidemic will make us any wiser.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“Individuals reduced to the panic of mere survival are ideal subjects for the introduction of authoritarian power.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“[...] now is the time to drop the “America (or whoever else) First” motto. As Martin Luther King put it more than half a century ago: “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
― Slavoj Žižek , Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World

“The really difficult thing to accept is the fact that the ongoing epidemic is a result of natural contingency at its purest, that it just happened and hides no deeper meaning. In the larger order of things, we are just a species with no special importance.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“today, those of us who still recognize ourselves as Communists, are liberals with a diploma—liberals who seriously studied why our liberal values are under threat and became aware that only a radical change can save them.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“And at an even more general level, viral epidemics remind us of the ultimate contingency and meaninglessness of our lives: no matter how magnificent the spiritual edifices we, humanity, construct, a stupid natural contingency like a virus or an asteroid can end it all … not to mention the lesson of ecology, which is that we, humanity, can also unknowingly contribute to this end.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“¿Aprenderemos algo de ella? Hegel escribió que lo único que podemos aprender de la historia es que no aprendemos nada de la historia, así que dudo que la epidemia nos haga más sabios.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemia: La covid-19 estremece al mundo

“The catch is that, even if life does eventually return to some semblance of normality, it will not be the same normal as the one we experienced before the outbreak. Things we were used to as part of our daily life will no longer be taken for granted, we will have to learn to live a much more fragile life with constant threats. We will have to change our entire stance to life, to our existence as living beings among other forms of life. In other words, if we understand “philosophy” as the name for our basic orientation in life, we will have to experience a true philosophical revolution.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“Carlo Ginzburg proposed the notion that being ashamed of one's country, not love of it, may be the true mark of belonging to it”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World

“Hegel wrote that the only thing we can learn from history is that we learn nothing from history,”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“This is a deeply Christian idea: when I feel alone, abandoned by God, at that point I am like Christ on the cross, in full solidarity with him.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World

“So we shouldn’t lose too much time in New Age spiritualist meditations on how “the virus crisis will enable us to focus on what our lives are really about.” The real struggle will be over what social form will replace the liberal-capitalist New World Order. This is our true appointment in Samara.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

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― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“A verdadeira luta se dará em torno de qual forma social substituirá a nova ordem mundial”
― Slavoj Žižek, Pandemia: Covid-19 e a reinvenção do comunismo