I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. — Slavoj Zizek Reality Copy Share Image
“Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?” — Slavoj Žižek American dream Copy Share Image
The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are… — Slavoj Žižek Actors Copy Share Image
My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So… — Slavoj Žižek 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
“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
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.” — Slavoj Žižek Political struggle Copy Share Image
“Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the… — Slavoj Žižek Liberals Copy Share Image
I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is… — Slavoj Žižek Change Copy Share Image
“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people… — Slavoj Žižek Bad people 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 Democracy Copy Share Image
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing… — Slavoj Zizek Communist Copy Share Image
Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news… — Slavoj Žižek Book 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, 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
“Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly. The… — Slavoj Žižek 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Žižek Desire 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
Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Žižek Academia Copy Share Image
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. — Slavoj Žižek Eating 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
The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
“an entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream. — Slavoj Žižek Dream 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
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