What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the… — 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
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 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
Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying… — 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
