Slavoj Žižek

Communism will win.

— Slavoj Zizek

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

— Slavoj Žižek

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

— Slavoj Žižek

“in short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself”

— Slavoj Žižek

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

— Slavoj Žižek

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”

— Slavoj Žižek

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

— Slavoj Žižek

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

— Slavoj Žižek

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

— Slavoj Žižek

“One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.”

— Slavoj Žižek

“Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the…

— Slavoj Žižek

“€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.”

— Slavoj Žižek

“Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?”

— Slavoj Žižek

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

— Slavoj Žižek

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are…

— Slavoj Žižek

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our…

— Slavoj Žižek

Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people…

— Slavoj Žižek

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that…

— Slavoj Žižek

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much…

— Slavoj Žižek

A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God’s grace might prove to be all too free on this side,…

— Slavoj Žižek

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass…

— Slavoj Žižek

“[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

What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even…

— Slavoj Žižek

“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable…

— Slavoj Žižek

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact…

— Slavoj Žižek

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less…

— Slavoj Žižek

“...surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr’s country house, a fellow scientist exclaimed that he did not share the…

— Slavoj Žižek

For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,…

— Slavoj Žižek

On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your…

— Slavoj Žižek

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

— Slavoj Žižek

The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state.

— Slavoj Žižek

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

— Slavoj Žižek

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

— Slavoj Žižek

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.

— Slavoj Žižek

We need useless theory more than ever today.

— Slavoj Žižek