Slavoj Zizek Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.
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.
The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.
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.
What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get.
The proper way for the woman to test the man's love is thus to "betray" him at a crucial moment in his career
the only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian.
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.
Nowadays, you can do anything that you want - anal, oral, fisting - but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.
An entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.
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.
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?
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
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
Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?
You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.
In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?
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
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm, and intelligence
The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.
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.
One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.
What characterizes a really great thinker is that they misrecognize the basic dimension of their own breakthrough.
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
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.
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.