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Slavoj Žižek on Independence Day

born 1949 Slovenia

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We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Lenin is best remembered for his famous retort, 'Freedom – yes, but for WHOM? To do WHAT?'

Lenin 2017 (2017)

True freedom is not a freedom of choice made from a safe distance, like choosing between a strawberry cake or a chocolate cake; true freedom overlaps with necessity, one makes a truly free choice when one's choice puts at stake one's very existence — one does it because one simply "cannot do it otherwise."

The True Hollywood Left (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Slavoj Žižek (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.