“Let’s think about the fake sense of urgency that pervades the left-liberal humanitarian discourse on violence: in it, abstraction and graphic (pseudo)concreteness… — Slavoj Žižek Harsh reality Copy Share Image
“in short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself” — Slavoj Žižek Compassion Copy Share Image
“Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?” — Slavoj Žižek 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
“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, such an eruption would… — Slavoj Žižek 2010 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
“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
“On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: "Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
“there is nothing arrogant about mentioning ordinary people’s material concerns: the poor have the right to do it, and to talk about… — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
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
“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
“My eternal fear is that if, for a brief moment, I stopped talking... you know, the whole spectacular appearance would disintegrate; people… — Slavoj Žižek Fear Copy Share Image
“I am an anti-capitalist because I believe we can improve on it. I believe that we can create the vision I have… — Slavoj Žižek Dreams 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
“Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our… — Slavoj Žižek Faith Copy Share Image
It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse. — Slavoj Žižek Controlled 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
“The performative dimension at work here consists of the symbolic efficiency of the “mask”: wearing a mask actually makes us what we… — Slavoj Žižek Productivity 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 Emancipation 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
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 Chinese Copy Share Image
“ [When asked about the dangers of Internet trolls being able to say whatever they want because of false profiles] What interests… — Slavoj Žižek Identity Copy Share Image
