Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom. — Slavoj Žižek Freedom Copy Share Image
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. — Slavoj Zizek Communist Copy Share Image
“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.” — Slavoj Žižek Dream Copy Share Image
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. — Slavoj Žižek Stalinism Copy Share Image
“In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest… — Slavoj Žižek America Copy Share Image
“It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk. What you don't get is part of the identity of… — Slavoj Žižek Coffee Copy Share Image
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news… — Slavoj Žižek Book Copy Share Image
For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society,… — Slavoj Žižek Antagonism Copy Share Image
Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind… — Slavoj Žižek Communism Copy Share Image
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is… — Slavoj Žižek Armed struggle Copy Share Image
In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is… — Slavoj Žižek Change Copy Share Image
“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people… — Slavoj Žižek Bad people Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Accusation Copy Share Image
“...surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr’s country house, a fellow scientist exclaimed that he did not share the… — Slavoj Žižek Belief Copy Share Image
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable… — Slavoj Žižek Desire Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact… — Slavoj Žižek Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less… — Slavoj Žižek America Copy Share Image
“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are… — Slavoj Žižek Children Copy Share Image
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? — Slavoj Žižek Barbarity Copy Share Image
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.” — Slavoj Žižek Art Copy Share Image
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
“an entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream. — Slavoj Žižek Dream Copy Share Image
“Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our… — Slavoj Žižek Democracy Copy Share Image
“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the… — Slavoj Žižek Addiction Copy Share Image
“Hello, glad to be here, but just don’t expect to get from me what you will never get from me. You will… — Slavoj Žižek Creativity Copy Share Image
“Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God’s grace might prove to be all too free on this side,… — Slavoj Žižek Christianity Copy Share Image
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass… — Slavoj Žižek Harassment Copy Share Image
Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the… — Slavoj Žižek Artist Copy Share Image
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The… — Slavoj Žižek Freedom Copy Share Image
You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I almost stopped teaching entirely. The worst thing for me is contact with students. I like universities without students. And I especially… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
![“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great." [ Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek , Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e9e/slavoj-i-ek-1738_bad-people_because-the-horror-of-communism-stalinis_1900927.jpg)
![“For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c96/slavoj-i-ek-1738_accusation_for-me-stalinism-was-even-a-greater-phil_2626555.jpg)
![“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are given a choice. But for, say, Amish children to really have a free choice of which way of life to choose, either their parents’ life or that of the “English,” they…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8fa/slavoj-i-ek-1738_children_l-iberals-insist-that-children-should-be_1892351.jpg)
