"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is……" — Slavoj Žižek
"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it."
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38 Quotes by Slavoj Žižek
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We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our…
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My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask…
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I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I…
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I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all…
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When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
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On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully…
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For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans…
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We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending…
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Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.
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Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a…
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True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a…
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The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than…
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