Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Authority Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date… — Slavoj Žižek Around the corner 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 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
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
The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state. — Slavoj Žižek Basques 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
“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
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
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Consistency 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
“…I am a good Hegelian. If you have a good theory, forget about the reality.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory… — Slavoj Žižek Around the world Copy Share Image
I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying… — Slavoj Žižek Arrogant Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left… — Slavoj Zizek Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Hello, glad to be here, but just don’t expect to get from me what you will never get from me. You will… — Slavoj Žižek Creativity Copy Share Image
But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what… — Slavoj Žižek Atheist 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 Corruption 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
“There is a wonderful expression in Persian, war nam nihadan, which means "to murder somebody, bury his body, then grow flowers over… — Slavoj Žižek Flower Copy Share Image
The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do… — Slavoj Žižek Bad people 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
“the ‘magic cave’ enables us to joyously accept the End. There is nothing morbid in it; such an acceptance is, on the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
