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The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.
— Slavoj Zizek
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.
— Slavoj Zizek
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.
— Slavoj Zizek
But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.
— Slavoj Zizek
The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise.
— Slavoj Zizek
Every civilisation that disavows its barbarian potential has already capitulated to barbarism.
— Slavoj Zizek
Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.
— Slavoj Zizek
In short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself
— Slavoj Zizek
The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.
— Slavoj Zizek
Q- What makes you depressed?
Seeing stupid people happy. — Slavoj Zizek
Seeing stupid people happy. — Slavoj Zizek
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.
— Slavoj Zizek
What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.
— Slavoj Zizek
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 Zizek
The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.
— Slavoj Zizek
It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk.
What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get. — Slavoj Zizek
What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get. — Slavoj Zizek
The proper way for the woman to test the man's love is thus to "betray" him at a crucial moment in his career
— Slavoj Zizek
the only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian.
— Slavoj Zizek
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.
— Slavoj Zizek
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.
— Slavoj Zizek
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
— Slavoj Zizek
Nowadays, you can do anything that you want - anal, oral, fisting - but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
— Slavoj Zizek
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.
— Slavoj Zizek
An entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.
— Slavoj Zizek
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.
— Slavoj Zizek
If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.
— Slavoj Zizek
I affirm myself to be a Lacanian, for fear of being convienced by others that I am not a Lacanian
— Slavoj Zizek
Communism will win.
— Slavoj Zizek
By what right can we call this a system of "corrections"? Is it not, rather, the rubric for a slavishly obedient, oppressed, and humiliated existence?
— Slavoj Zizek
An enemy is someone whose story you have not heard.
— Slavoj Zizek
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
— Slavoj Zizek
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 Zizek
Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?
— Slavoj Zizek
You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.
— Slavoj Zizek
In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?
— Slavoj Zizek
The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other
— Slavoj Zizek
Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals
— Slavoj Zizek
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.
— Slavoj Zizek
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.
— Slavoj Zizek
See you either in hell or in communism
— Slavoj Zizek
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
— Slavoj Zizek
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm, and intelligence
— Slavoj Zizek
The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.
— Slavoj Zizek
If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them.
— Slavoj Zizek
Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.
— Slavoj Zizek
My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.
— Slavoj Zizek
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
— Slavoj Zizek
€7,500, first-class, everything - and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
— Slavoj Zizek
One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.
— Slavoj Zizek
What characterizes a really great thinker is that they misrecognize the basic dimension of their own breakthrough.
— Slavoj Zizek
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?
— Slavoj Zizek
Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?
— Slavoj Zizek
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
— Slavoj Zizek
A spectre is haunting Western academia ( ... ), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.
— Slavoj Zizek
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
— Slavoj Zizek
I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.
— Slavoj Zizek
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.
— Slavoj Zizek
We need useless theory more than ever today.
— Slavoj Zizek