Active Quote by Slavoj Žižek

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by…

— Slavoj Žižek

“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing…

— Slavoj Žižek

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming…

— Slavoj Žižek

“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the erosion of…

— Slavoj Žižek

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

— Slavoj Žižek

“Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.”

— Slavoj Žižek

“In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world”

— Slavoj Žižek

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

— Slavoj Žižek

We need useless theory more than ever today.

— Slavoj Žižek

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,…

— Slavoj Žižek

“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’. ‘Crab soup’…

— Slavoj Žižek