#quest

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#ask #effectively #instinct #left #means

The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning. ↗

— Herman Cain

#guy #intimidate #into #keep #keeps

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#days #democracy #effectively #enough #face

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere. ↗

— Karel Capek

#comes #elsewhere #good #i #life

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#america #attach #black #clearly #defined

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. ↗

— Robert Casey

#consciences #generation #issue #our #pressing

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#answering #even #even now #height #i

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#course #get #giving #graduate #impress

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#arise #choice #decision #human #loss