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
“[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
“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of… — Slavoj Žižek Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Because just as in more confused times, like today, we don’t just need experts. We also need people who will think more… — Slavoj Žižek Time 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 Žižek Dear Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Art 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
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
Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately… — Slavoj Žižek Bad guy 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
The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired… — Slavoj Žižek Duty Copy Share Image
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the… — Slavoj Žižek Chaos Copy Share Image
“There is an old story about a worker suspected of stealing: every evening, as he leaves the factory, the wheelbarrow he rolls… — Slavoj Žižek 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
“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, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Accusation Copy Share Image
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
“The pressure "to do something" here is like the superstitious compulsion to make some gesture when we are observing a process over… — Slavoj Žižek First place 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
“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
In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that… — Slavoj Žižek Firsts 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 moment we think in the terms of 'Yes, the WTC collapse was a tragedy, but we should not fully solidarize with… — Slavoj Žižek Time 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
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass… — Slavoj Žižek Harassment Copy Share Image
