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
“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
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is… — Slavoj Žižek Accounts Copy Share Image
“The same philantropists who give millions for AIDS or education in tolerance have ruined the lives of thousands through financial speculation and… — Slavoj Žižek Different perspective 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
“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
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.” — Slavoj Žižek Fiction Copy Share Image
The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — Slavoj Žižek Assuming 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 Copy Share Image
“IN AN OLD YUGOSLAV JOKE mocking police corruption, a policeman returns home unexpectedly and finds his wife naked in their marital bed,… — Slavoj Žižek Marriage Copy Share Image
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. — Slavoj Žižek Stalinism Copy Share Image
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. — Slavoj Žižek Atheism Copy Share Image
“Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God’s grace might prove to be all too free on this side,… — Slavoj Žižek Christianity Copy Share Image
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the… — Slavoj Zizek Causes 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
“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
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. — Slavoj Žižek Add Copy Share Image
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. — Slavoj Žižek Language Copy Share Image
“A critical analysis of the present global constellation-one which offers no clear solution, no “practical” advice on what to do, and provides… — Slavoj Žižek Critical analysis Copy Share Image
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were… — Slavoj Žižek Behavior Copy Share Image
“Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In… — Slavoj Žižek Contemporary society Copy Share Image
“€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.” — Slavoj Žižek Fame 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
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