“If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume… — Slavoj Žižek Civility Copy Share Image
“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
What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental… — Slavoj Žižek Causes Copy Share Image
Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the… — Slavoj Žižek Dangerous Copy Share Image
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we… — Slavoj Žižek Absence Copy Share Image
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy.… — Slavoj Žižek Buddhism 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
“...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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“...surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr’s country house, a fellow scientist exclaimed that he did not share the… — Slavoj Žižek Belief Copy Share Image
I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact… — Slavoj Žižek Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less… — Slavoj Žižek America Copy Share Image
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable… — Slavoj Žižek Desire Copy Share Image
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even… — Slavoj Žižek Absolute Copy Share Image
“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are… — Slavoj Žižek Children 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)
![“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are given a choice. But for, say, Amish children to really have a free choice of which way of life to choose, either their parents’ life or that of the “English,” they…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8fa/slavoj-i-ek-1738_children_l-iberals-insist-that-children-should-be_1892351.jpg)