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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

It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse. — 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

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice. — 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

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. — Slavoj Zizek

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. — ZIZEK

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions. — Slavoj Zizek

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want - anal, oral, fisting - but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection. — Slavoj Zizek

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction. — Slavoj Zizek

the only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian. — 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

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream. — 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

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions. — 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

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. — 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

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

... I am a good Hegelian. If you have a good theory, forget about the reality. — 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

It is the reign of contemporary global capitalism which is the true Lord of Misrule. — Slavoj Zizek

Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not — 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

In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. — 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

The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state — 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

â‚¬7,500, first-class, everything - and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff. — Slavoj Zizek

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom. — Slavoj Zizek

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem? — 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

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. — 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

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood? — Slavoj Zizek

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. — Slavoj Zizek