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
Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying.… — Slavoj Žižek 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 Copy Share Image
What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem? — Slavoj Žižek 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
It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse. — 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
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — 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
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek 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
