Leszek Kołakowski citáty a výroky
Leszek Kołakowski: Citáty v angličtine
“Fascist was, by definition, a person who happened to have been in jail in a communist country.”
"My Correct Views on Everything" (1974)
Kontext: When I collect my experiences, I notice that fascist is a person who holds one of the following beliefs (by way of example): 1) That people should wash themselves, rather than go dirty; 2) that freedom of the press in America is preferable to the ownership of the whole press by one ruling party; 3) that people should not be jailed for their opinions. both communist and anti-communist - 4), that racial criteria, in favour of either whites or blacks, are inadvisable in admission to Universities; 5 ) that torture is condemnable, no matter who applies it. (Roughly speaking "fascist" was the same as "liberal".) Fascist was, by definition, a person who happened to have been in jail in a communist country. The refugees from Czechoslovakia in 1968 were sometimes met in Germany by very progressive and absolutely revolutionary leftists with placards saying "fascism will not pass".
Interview with Nathan Gardels http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2009_fall_2010_winter/04_kolakowski.html (1991)
“Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century.”
Epilogue, p. 1206
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978)
Kontext: Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. It was a dream offering the prospect of a society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled.
Zdroj: Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume III: The Breakdown, pp. 42-3
New Epilogue, p. 1214 (See also: Karl Marx - History - Statistics...)
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978)
pg. 96
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume I, The Founders
pg. 515
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume II, The Golden Age
pg. 512
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume II, The Golden Age
"Modernity on Endless Trial" (1986)
“The concept of original sin gives us a penetrating insight into human destiny.”
"On the Dilemmas of the Christian Legacy"
pg. 51
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume II, The Golden Age
"Looking for the Barbarians"
Zdroj: Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume I, The Founders, pp. 120-1
New Preface, p. vi
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978)
"Totalitarianism and the Virtue of the Lie", as quoted in Is God Happy? Selected Essays (2013), Basic Books, p. 57
Zdroj: Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume I, The Founders, pp. 102-3
"The Self-Poisoning of the Open Society"
Eventually the party condemned both camps, and created a dialectical synthesis of both forms of ignorance.
pg. 64
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume III: The Breakdown
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Originál: "Otóż przeciwnie – to my jesteśmy jej własnością, ponieważ nie jesteśmy w stanie dokonać w niej zmian, ona natomiast wypełnia całość naszego istnienia."
pg. 53
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume III: The Breakdown
“…shall we say that the difference between a vegetarian and a cannibal is just a matter of taste?”
"The Idolatry of Politics", New Republic, 1986-June-16, page 31.
Zdroj: Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume II, The Golden Age, pp. 94-5
Epilogue, p. 1208
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978)
"The Revenge of the Sacred in Secular Culture" (1973)
Zdroj: Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume I, The Founders, pp. 143-4
pg. 28-9
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume III: The Breakdown