Slavoj Žižek

Communism will win.

— Slavoj Zizek

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

— Slavoj Žižek

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

— Slavoj Žižek

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Slavoj Žižek

The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state.

— Slavoj Žižek

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

— Slavoj Žižek

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

— Slavoj Žižek

“in short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself”

— Slavoj Žižek

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired…

— Slavoj Žižek

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

— Slavoj Žižek

“Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.”

— Slavoj Žižek

The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

— Slavoj Žižek

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

— Slavoj Žižek

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the…

— Slavoj Žižek

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

— Slavoj Žižek

A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

— Slavoj Žižek

“The moment we think in the terms of 'Yes, the WTC collapse was a tragedy, but we should not fully solidarize with…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Liberals always say about totalitarians that they like humanity, as such, but they have no empathy for concrete people, no? OK, that…

— Slavoj Žižek

“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses…

— Slavoj Žižek

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child,…

— Slavoj Zizek

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous…

— Slavoj Žižek

“...A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am…

— Slavoj Žižek

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred…

— Slavoj Zizek

“It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Yeah, because I'm extremely romantic here. You know what is my fear? This postmodern, permissive, pragmatic etiquette towards sex. It's horrible. They…

— Slavoj Žižek

“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unprincipled violations of…

— Slavoj Žižek

This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human…

— Slavoj Žižek

Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,…

— Slavoj Žižek

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from…

— Slavoj Žižek

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Two mutually exclusive readings of IoT impose themselves: IoT as the domain of radical emancipation, a unique chance to combine freedom and…

— Slavoj Žižek

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

— Slavoj Žižek

“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”

— Slavoj Žižek

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

— Slavoj Žižek

“Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?”

— Slavoj Žižek

“Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.”

— Slavoj Žižek

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

— Slavoj Zizek