Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege? — Slavoj Žižek Becoming 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 Ceremony 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 Copy Share Image
“All too often, when we love somebody, we don't accept him or her as what the person effectively is. We accept him… — Slavoj Žižek Fantasy Copy Share Image
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing… — Slavoj Zizek Communist Copy Share Image
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from… — Slavoj Žižek Achievement Copy Share Image
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but… — Slavoj Žižek Contradiction Copy Share Image
Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom. — Slavoj Žižek Freedom Copy Share Image
Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying.… — Slavoj Žižek Class Copy Share Image
Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice. — Slavoj Žižek Insight 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
What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem? — Slavoj Žižek Ifs Copy Share Image
The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are… — Slavoj Žižek Actors Copy Share Image
“What would be my, how should I call it, spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It's a very dark one. The first thesis… — Slavoj Žižek Hate the world 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
“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 Ideology Copy Share Image
“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this… — Slavoj Žižek Class struggle 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 Change Copy Share Image
There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a… — Slavoj Žižek Doctrine Copy Share Image
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the… — Slavoj Žižek Clouds Copy Share Image
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks. — Slavoj Žižek Aggressive Copy Share Image
In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally,… — Slavoj Žižek Administration 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
“William Butler Yeats’s “Second Coming” seems perfectly to render our present predicament: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are… — Slavoj Žižek Islam Copy Share Image
