“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to… — Slavoj Žižek Capitalism Copy Share Image
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
“Stalin’s position seems ambiguous here: one can imagine a Stalinist purge as the effort to liquidate all chimney sweepers who disturb socialist… — Slavoj Žižek Peace Copy Share Image
In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release… — Slavoj Žižek Body Copy Share Image
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but… — Slavoj Žižek Contradiction Copy Share Image
There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a… — Slavoj Žižek Doctrine Copy Share Image
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene,… — Slavoj Zizek Blessing Copy Share Image
“Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to… — Slavoj Žižek Friend Copy Share Image
“What this means is that we should reject not only all manifestations of ‘alternative modernity’ (which amount to a ‘capitalism without capitalism’,… — Slavoj Žižek Capitalism Copy Share Image
“itself as the “natural” advocate of democracy and human rights against the threat of totalitarianism—as if it were not the case that… — Slavoj Žižek Democracy and human rights Copy Share Image
“How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction… — Slavoj Žižek Law Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point of our self-consciousness. If… — Slavoj Žižek Irony Copy Share Image
We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’.… — Slavoj Žižek Freedom Copy Share Image
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and… — Slavoj Zizek Instinct Copy Share Image
True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle… — Slavoj Žižek Differences Copy Share Image
In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus . Now he has a unique… — Slavoj Žižek Campaigns Copy Share Image
The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless… — Slavoj Žižek Character Copy Share Image
“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've… — Slavoj Žižek Populism Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left… — Slavoj Zizek Capitalism Copy Share Image
A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a… — Slavoj Žižek Care Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune… — Slavoj Zizek Failure Copy Share Image
It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force… — Slavoj Žižek Eating Copy Share Image
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority),… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“the immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to… — Slavoj Žižek Business Copy Share Image
With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has… — Slavoj Žižek Admiration Copy Share Image
“capitalism is for Karatani not a ‘pure’ reign of B, but a triad (or, rather, a Borromean knot) of nation–state–capital: nation as… — Slavoj Žižek Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly. The… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is… — Slavoj Žižek Change Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of… — Slavoj Žižek Good man Copy Share Image
“William Butler Yeats’s “Second Coming” seems perfectly to render our present predicament: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are… — Slavoj Žižek Islam Copy Share Image
“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of… — Slavoj Žižek Philosophy Copy Share Image
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
![“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/604/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for_2414026.jpg)
![“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for example, Robespierre said, in his justification…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4b0/slavoj-i-ek-1738_philosophy_o-ne-cannot-separate-violence-from-the-v_2415021.jpg)
![“[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and the true conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee5/slavoj-i-ek-1738_accounts_t-aking-the-third-into-account-does-not_1994071.png)