The role of the Fascist spectacle of violence is...to PREVENT true change - something spectacular should happen all the time so that, precisely, nothing really happens.

Zizek

The purely humanitarian anti-political politics of merely preventing suffering...effectively amounts to the implicit prohibition of elaborating a positive collective project of socio-political transformation.

Zizek

The first truly critical ("aggressive," violent) step is to WITHDRAW into passivity, to refuse to participate - Bartleby's "I would prefer not to" is the necessary first step which as it were clears the ground for a true activity, for an act that will effectively change the coordinates of the constellation.

Zizek