In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. — Slavoj Žižek Stalinism 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
“It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk. What you don't get is part of the identity of… — Slavoj Žižek Coffee Copy Share Image
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? — Slavoj Žižek Barbarity Copy Share Image
“In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest… — Slavoj Žižek America Copy Share Image
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.” — Slavoj Žižek Art Copy Share Image
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom. — Slavoj Žižek Freedom 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
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind… — Slavoj Žižek Communism 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 Solidarity 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
“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
“...A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am… — Slavoj Žižek Friend 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
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous… — 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
Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to… — Slavoj Žižek Ability Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek Crime 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
On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your… — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
“…I am a good Hegelian. If you have a good theory, forget about the reality.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?” — Slavoj Žižek Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you… — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on… — Slavoj Žižek Attention Copy Share Image
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
“It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the… — Slavoj Žižek History 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 Acceptance 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
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even… — Slavoj Žižek Anglo saxon 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 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 Copy Share Image
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force… — Slavoj Žižek Eating Copy Share Image
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