It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are… — Slavoj Žižek Actors Copy Share Image
“€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.” — Slavoj Žižek Fame Copy Share Image
“Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.” — Slavoj Žižek Political struggle Copy Share Image
“the ‘magic cave’ enables us to joyously accept the End. There is nothing morbid in it; such an acceptance is, on the… — Slavoj Žižek Acceptance Copy Share Image
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even… — Slavoj Žižek Anglo saxon Copy Share Image
“There is a wonderful expression in Persian, war nam nihadan, which means "to murder somebody, bury his body, then grow flowers over… — Slavoj Žižek Flower Copy Share Image
Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately… — Slavoj Žižek Bad guy Copy Share Image
The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do… — Slavoj Žižek Bad people Copy Share Image
While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on… — Slavoj Žižek Attention Copy Share Image
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing… — Slavoj Zizek Communist Copy Share Image
“What is “true” thinking? Thinking is not solving problems. The first step in thinking is to ask these sorts of questions: “Is… — Slavoj Žižek First step Copy Share Image
“It would be interesting to compare Tarkovsky’s work with the Hollywood commercial rewritings of novels which have served as bases for movies:… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“A dispassionate conceptual development of the typology of violence must by definition ignore its traumatic impact. Yet there is a sense in… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“are, in a certain way, continuously voting with our money. “Deeper” existential thinkers like to deploy variations on the theme of the… — Slavoj Žižek Choice Copy Share Image
Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed… — Slavoj Žižek Allegory Copy Share Image
“...when do I actually encounter the Other 'beyond the wall of language', in the rel of his or her being? Not when… — Slavoj Žižek Facial expression Copy Share Image
Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to… — Slavoj Žižek Ability Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek Crime Copy Share Image
“What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory… — Slavoj Žižek Around the world Copy Share Image
“Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the… — Slavoj Žižek Liberals Copy Share Image
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.” — Slavoj Žižek Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what… — Slavoj Žižek Atheist Copy Share Image
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were… — Slavoj Žižek Behavior Copy Share Image
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“…I am a good Hegelian. If you have a good theory, forget about the reality.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?” — Slavoj Žižek Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
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