“Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?” — Slavoj Žižek American dream Copy Share Image
I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. — Slavoj Zizek Reality Copy Share Image
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. — Slavoj Žižek Define Copy Share Image
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes… — Slavoj Žižek Active Copy Share Image
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were… — Slavoj Žižek Behavior Copy Share Image
Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood? — Slavoj Žižek Accomplish Copy Share Image
But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what… — Slavoj Žižek Atheist 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
“The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.” — Slavoj Žižek Brotherhood 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
Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western… — Slavoj Žižek Careers Copy Share Image
“Hello, glad to be here, but just don’t expect to get from me what you will never get from me. You will… — Slavoj Žižek Creativity 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 horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do… — Slavoj Žižek Bad people Copy Share Image
Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately… — Slavoj Žižek Bad guy Copy Share Image
While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on… — Slavoj Žižek Attention Copy Share Image
“It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the… — Slavoj Žižek History Copy Share Image
“the ‘magic cave’ enables us to joyously accept the End. There is nothing morbid in it; such an acceptance is, on the… — Slavoj Žižek Acceptance Copy Share Image
“What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory… — Slavoj Žižek Around the world Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date… — Slavoj Žižek Around the corner 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 Ability 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
“Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly. The… — Slavoj Žižek Activity Violence Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of… — Slavoj Žižek Good man Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek 2010 Copy Share Image
“We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is… — Slavoj Žižek Change Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.” — Slavoj Žižek Anal-sex Copy Share Image
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. — Slavoj Žižek Eating Copy Share Image
The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired… — Slavoj Žižek Duty Copy Share Image
Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege? — Slavoj Žižek Becoming Copy Share Image
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Žižek Academia Copy Share Image
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. — Slavoj Žižek Atheism Copy Share Image
I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the… — Slavoj Žižek Around the corner 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
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.” — Slavoj Žižek Art Copy Share Image
“It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk. What you don't get is part of the identity of… — Slavoj Žižek Coffee Copy Share Image
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? — Slavoj Žižek Barbarity 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 America Copy Share Image
![“[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…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/604/slavoj-i-ek-1738_2010_t-his-readiness-to-assume-the-guilt-for_2414026.jpg)
