The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless… — Slavoj Žižek Character Copy Share Image
“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've… — Slavoj Žižek Populism Copy Share Image
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and… — Slavoj Zizek Instinct Copy Share Image
True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle… — Slavoj Žižek Differences 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
“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
Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself… — Slavoj Žižek Accepted Copy Share Image
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority),… — Slavoj Žižek Agency Copy Share Image
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene,… — Slavoj Zizek Blessing Copy Share Image
“Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to… — Slavoj Žižek Friend Copy Share Image
“What this means is that we should reject not only all manifestations of ‘alternative modernity’ (which amount to a ‘capitalism without capitalism’,… — Slavoj Žižek Capitalism Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end… — Slavoj Žižek Absolutes 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
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
“Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unprincipled violations of… — Slavoj Žižek Capitalism Copy Share Image
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human… — Slavoj Žižek Chimera Copy Share Image
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force… — Slavoj Žižek Eating Copy Share Image
It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and… — Slavoj Žižek Oneself Copy Share Image
“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to… — Slavoj Žižek Capitalism Copy Share Image
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy… — Slavoj Žižek Cartoon Copy Share Image
“Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you… — Slavoj Zizek Corrupt Copy Share Image
“Stalin’s position seems ambiguous here: one can imagine a Stalinist purge as the effort to liquidate all chimney sweepers who disturb socialist… — Slavoj Žižek Peace Copy Share Image
I almost stopped teaching entirely. The worst thing for me is contact with students. I like universities without students. And I especially… — Slavoj Žižek Contact Copy Share Image
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The… — Slavoj Žižek Freedom Copy Share Image
You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can… — Slavoj Žižek Certain Copy Share Image
We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to… — Slavoj Žižek Axes 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
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
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release… — Slavoj Žižek Body 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
“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of… — Slavoj Žižek Paradoxes Copy Share Image
“Yeah, because I'm extremely romantic here. You know what is my fear? This postmodern, permissive, pragmatic etiquette towards sex. It's horrible. They… — Slavoj Žižek Fear Copy Share Image
“...when do I actually encounter the Other 'beyond the wall of language', in the rel of his or her being? Not when… — Slavoj Žižek Facial expression Copy Share Image
Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed… — Slavoj Žižek Allegory Copy Share Image
“are, in a certain way, continuously voting with our money. “Deeper” existential thinkers like to deploy variations on the theme of the… — Slavoj Žižek Choice Copy Share Image
“It would be interesting to compare Tarkovsky’s work with the Hollywood commercial rewritings of novels which have served as bases for movies:… — Slavoj Žižek Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“A dispassionate conceptual development of the typology of violence must by definition ignore its traumatic impact. Yet there is a sense in… — Slavoj Žižek Analysis Violence Copy Share Image
“Two mutually exclusive readings of IoT impose themselves: IoT as the domain of radical emancipation, a unique chance to combine freedom and… — Slavoj Žižek Definition of love Copy Share Image
“The space of difference became now something exclusively cultural. In order for us to perceive political differences and divisions and to recognize… — Slavoj Žižek Culture Copy Share Image
“The performative dimension at work here consists of the symbolic efficiency of the “mask”: wearing a mask actually makes us what we… — Slavoj Žižek Authenticity Copy Share Image
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