#question

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

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?' ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#know #people #question #tell #themselves

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

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#anything #could #else #facebook #friends

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

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change? ↗

— Chris Christie

#anymore #big #change #demand #government