“But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the… — Slavoj Žižek 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 Copy Share Image
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child,… — Slavoj Zizek 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 minorities) by… — Slavoj Žižek 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 pressure forcing… — Slavoj Žižek 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 with the… — Slavoj Žižek 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 so overwhelming… — Slavoj Žižek 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 erosion of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Žižek 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 of the world” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,… — 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’. ‘Crab soup’… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
![“But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the practice of discarding weak children? This “absurdity” is simply the price of freedom—freedom is not free, as they put it in the film [300]. Freedom is not…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f6/slavoj-i-ek-1738_children_but-what-about-the-apparent-absurdity-of_806718.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/quotes/img-quotes/8fa/slavoj-i-ek-1738_children_l-iberals-insist-that-children-should-be_1892351.jpg)
