Slavoj Žižek Short Quotes

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Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

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

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Heidegger is 'great' not in spite of, but because of his Nazi engagement...

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

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A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

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What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

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

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As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

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... there is never a "right moment" for the revolutionary act - the act is always, by definition, "premature".

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I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutions around the corner.

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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.

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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.

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... crazy, tasteless even, as it may sound, the problem with Hitler was that he was not violent enough, that his violence was not 'essential' enough...

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Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.

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The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

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I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

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As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

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In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

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It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

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Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!"

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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 passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them.

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