Quote by Jean Baudrillard
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection o

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. – Jean Baudrillard

Other quotes by Jean Baudrillard

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. – Jean Baudrillard

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Future
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Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard

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Terrorism
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. – Jean Baudrillard

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Pornography
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Other Quotes from
Learning
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Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Learning

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colins still learning. – Donald Rumsfeld

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Learning

Of course, Id like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now Im learning from a bunch of little movies. And its more fun with smaller pictures. Its more creative. – Lea Thompson

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Learning

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. – Emile Hirsch

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Learning

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If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott

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Beauty

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it. – Shirley MacLaine

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No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of whos cool and what to wear. – Jena Malone

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