“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, such an eruption would… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“What would be my, how should I call it, spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It's a very dark one. The first thesis… — Slavoj Žižek Hate the world 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
“We can understand an attempt to ignore power as being just for the right of the people when conditions demand it. It's… — Slavoj Žižek Mean people 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
“if Western universal values are false, is it enough to oppose them with a particular way of life like China’s Confucian ‘mainstream… — Slavoj Žižek Global market 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 Zizek Hedonism Copy Share Image
“Let’s think about the fake sense of urgency that pervades the left-liberal humanitarian discourse on violence: in it, abstraction and graphic (pseudo)concreteness… — Slavoj Žižek Harsh reality Copy Share Image
“If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume… — Slavoj Žižek Civility 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 Copy Share Image
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy.… — Slavoj Žižek Buddhism Copy Share Image
What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental… — Slavoj Žižek 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 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
Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying.… — Slavoj Žižek Class Copy Share Image
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the… — Slavoj Žižek Ceremony Copy Share Image
“The space of difference became now something exclusively cultural. In order for us to perceive political differences and divisions and to recognize… — Slavoj Žižek Culture Copy Share Image
“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this… — Slavoj Žižek Class struggle Copy Share Image
“The performative dimension at work here consists of the symbolic efficiency of the “mask”: wearing a mask actually makes us what we… — Slavoj Žižek Authenticity 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
“There is an old story about a worker suspected of stealing: every evening, as he leaves the factory, the wheelbarrow he rolls… — Slavoj Žižek Wheelbarrows Copy Share Image
“Dvije stavke određuju današnji liberalan tolerantni stav prema drugima: poštivanje drugih, otvorenost spram njih i opsesivni strah od uznemiravanja. Drugi je OK… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I am an anti-capitalist because I believe we can improve on it. I believe that we can create the vision I have… — Slavoj Žižek 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 Copy Share Image
“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers… — Slavoj Žižek Trade union 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
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
“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit… — Slavoj Žižek Different attitude 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 Joke 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
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
“[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
[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 Copy Share Image
“My eternal fear is that if, for a brief moment, I stopped talking... you know, the whole spectacular appearance would disintegrate; people… — Slavoj Žižek Fear Copy Share Image
“...witness the surprise of the average American: 'How is it possible that these people display and practise such a disregard for their… — Slavoj Žižek Life Copy Share Image
“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?… — Slavoj Žižek Books Copy Share Image
“All too often, when we love somebody, we don't accept him or her as what the person effectively is. We accept him… — Slavoj Žižek Fantasy Copy Share Image
This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top… — Slavoj Žižek Bankers Copy Share Image
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![“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this silent suspension of class analysis, that we are dealing with an exemplary case of the mechanism of ideological displacement: when class antagonism is…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7db/slavoj-i-ek-1738_class-struggle_i-n-so-far-as-postmodern-politics-involv_681664.png)
![“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for example, Robespierre said, in his justification…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b0/slavoj-i-ek-1738_philosophy_o-ne-cannot-separate-violence-from-the-v_2415021.jpg)
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![“All too often, when we love somebody, we don't accept him or her as what the person effectively is. We accept him or her insofar as this person fits the co-ordinates of our fantasy. We misidentify [...] him or her – which is why, when we discover that we were wrong, love can quickly turn into…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/slavoj-i-ek-1738_fantasy_all-too-often-when-we-love-somebody-we-d_473054.jpg)
