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
There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human… — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has… — Slavoj Žižek 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 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
