13 Quotes by Slovenian authors

Slovenian sayings speak quietly, shaped by mountains, karst winds, and green silence. Their humor is dry, their tenderness unadorned, wary of grandstanding and partial to steady hands. Through Prešeren’s lyric ache and Kosovel’s stark clarity run threads of thrift, neighborly duty, and the stubborn joy of small fields. Expect images of linden shade, river stones, and bees at work; lessons about patience, measure, and the weight of a promise; a music that’s modest, earthy, and unexpectedly luminous.

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"When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation"

Janez Drnovsek, Statesman

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"I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"Communism will win"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased"

Janez Drnovsek, Statesman

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