The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic… — Slavoj Žižek Agents 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… — Slavoj Žižek Desire 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… — Slavoj Žižek Bureaucracy 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… — Slavoj Žižek Crime 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… — Slavoj Žižek Addiction 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 Desire 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… — Slavoj Žižek Politics 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… — Slavoj Žižek Able 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’.… — Slavoj Žižek Freedom Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek American history Copy Share Image
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Žižek Academia Copy Share Image
“...A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am… — Slavoj Žižek Friendship Copy Share Image
In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to… — Slavoj Žižek Arresting Copy Share Image
We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much… — Slavoj Žižek Boat Copy Share Image
I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. — Slavoj Zizek Reality 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 Answers Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Accepting Copy Share Image
The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology. — Slavoj Žižek Distance Copy Share Image
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 America Copy Share Image
In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus . Now he has a unique… — Slavoj Žižek Campaigns Copy Share Image
“If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume… — Slavoj Žižek Civility Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune… — Slavoj Zizek Failure Copy Share Image
