In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. — Slavoj Žižek Stalinism Copy Share Image
“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.” — Slavoj Žižek Dream Copy Share Image
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. — Slavoj Zizek Communist Copy Share Image
“an entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.” — Slavoj Žižek Entity Copy Share Image
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream. — Slavoj Žižek Dream Copy Share Image
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few… — Slavoj Zizek Agree Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Emergencies Copy Share Image
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you… — Slavoj Žižek Ifs Copy Share Image
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred… — Slavoj Zizek Capitalist Copy Share Image
“There is a wonderful expression in Persian, war nam nihadan, which means "to murder somebody, bury his body, then grow flowers over… — Slavoj Žižek Flower Copy Share Image
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even… — Slavoj Žižek Anglo saxon 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 Friend Copy Share Image
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child,… — Slavoj Zizek Books 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 soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Consistency Copy Share Image
“Liberals always say about totalitarians that they like humanity, as such, but they have no empathy for concrete people, no? OK, that… — Slavoj Žižek Empathy 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
“capitalism is for Karatani not a ‘pure’ reign of B, but a triad (or, rather, a Borromean knot) of nation–state–capital: nation as… — Slavoj Žižek Capitalism Copy Share Image
With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has… — Slavoj Žižek Admiration Copy Share Image
“What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point of our self-consciousness. If… — Slavoj Žižek Irony Copy Share Image
“the immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to… — Slavoj Žižek Business Copy Share Image
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
“itself as the “natural” advocate of democracy and human rights against the threat of totalitarianism—as if it were not the case that… — Slavoj Žižek Democracy and human rights Copy Share Image
“How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction… — Slavoj Žižek Law Copy Share Image
We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate… — Slavoj Žižek Guy Copy Share Image
“In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?” — Slavoj Žižek Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“…I am a good Hegelian. If you have a good theory, forget about the reality.” — Slavoj Žižek Good Theory Copy Share Image
Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom. — Slavoj Žižek Freedom 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
“The moment we think in the terms of 'Yes, the WTC collapse was a tragedy, but we should not fully solidarize with… — Slavoj Žižek Solidarity Copy Share Image
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is… — Slavoj Žižek Armed struggle Copy Share Image
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind… — Slavoj Žižek Communism Copy Share Image
Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves… — Slavoj Žižek Blah Copy Share Image
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news… — Slavoj Žižek Book Copy Share Image
“What is “true” thinking? Thinking is not solving problems. The first step in thinking is to ask these sorts of questions: “Is… — Slavoj Žižek First step Copy Share Image
For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society,… — Slavoj Žižek Antagonism 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
“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
A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a… — Slavoj Žižek Care Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left… — Slavoj Zizek Capitalism Copy Share Image
