---
title: "2 2010 Quotes By Slavoj Žižek"
description: "2 2010 quotes by Slavoj Žižek. Plus more from Slavoj Žižek and more 2010 sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_the-socioeconomic-impact-of-such-a-minor_1244995.png"
---

> [“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us more independent from nature. At the same time, at a different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/the-socioeconomic-impact-of-such-a-minor-outburst-is-due-to-our/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_the-socioeconomic-impact-of-such-a-minor_1244995.png)

> [ “\[T\]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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for-the-threats-to-our/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for_2414026.jpg)

## More by Slavoj Žižek

> [The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/the-ultimate-goal-of-radical-politics-is-gradually-to-displace-the/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/in-kant-s-description-ethical-duty-functions-like-a-foreign-traumatic/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/i-think-kafka-was-right-when-he-said-that-for-a-modern-secular/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/the-cliche-about-prison-life-is-that-i-am-actually-integrated-into-it/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the erosion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/in-our-quest-for-entertainment-and-instant-gratification-we-have/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/the-problem-for-us-is-not-are-our-desires-satisfied-or-not-the/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [“Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/ultimately-we-hear-things-because-we-cannot-see-everything/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [“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”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/in-contrast-to-the-situation-in-1945-the-world-does-not-need-the-us/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/humanity-is-ok-but-99-of-people-are-boring-idiots/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [We need useless theory more than ever today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/we-need-useless-theory-more-than-ever-today/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/those-who-were-still-able-to-write-beautiful-melodies-were-kitsch/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [“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’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/as-in-heinrich-heine-s-a-contemporary-of-kierkegaard-s-well-known/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/the-pursuit-of-happiness-is-such-a-key-element-of-the-american/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/a-spectre-is-haunting-western-academia-the-spectre-of-the-cartesian/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

> [“...A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am not ready…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/a-friend-has-to-be-outside-my-reach-beyond-my-grasp-and-there-can-be/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010/slavoj-i-ek/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 2010 Quotes By Slavoj Žižek",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us more independent from nature. At the same time, at a different level, it makes us more dependent on nature’s whims.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Slavoj Žižek"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/the-socioeconomic-impact-of-such-a-minor-outburst-is-due-to-our/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_the-socioeconomic-impact-of-such-a-minor_1244995.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_the-socioeconomic-impact-of-such-a-minor_1244995.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_the-socioeconomic-impact-of-such-a-minor_1244995.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a…” — Slavoj Žižek",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“[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 least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Slavoj Žižek"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for-the-threats-to-our/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for_2414026.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for_2414026.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for_2414026.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like…” — Slavoj Žižek",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010/slavoj-i-ek/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010/slavoj-i-ek/",
            "name": "2010 Quotes by Slavoj Žižek",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010/slavoj-i-ek/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_the-socioeconomic-impact-of-such-a-minor_1244995.png"
            },
            "description": "2 2010 quotes by Slavoj Žižek. Plus more from Slavoj Žižek and more 2010 sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010/slavoj-i-ek/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010/slavoj-i-ek/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Zz",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Slavoj Žižek",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010/slavoj-i-ek/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```