Slavoj Žižek Quotes
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
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 and so on.
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.
We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
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.
Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?
Experts are by definition the servants of those in power: they don't really THINK, they just apply their knowledge to problems defined by the powerful.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
€7, 500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something g
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.
Ultimately, we hear things because we cannot see everything.
You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.