Quotes by Slavoj Žižek

Explore a curated collection of 39 quotes by Slavoj Žižek. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them. — Slavoj Žižek
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. — Slavoj Žižek
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on — Slavoj Žižek
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itse — Slavoj Žižek
When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying — Slavoj Žižek
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. — Slavoj Žižek
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. — Slavoj Žižek
€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff. — Slavoj Žižek
How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for thi — Slavoj Žižek
The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And I’m writing — Slavoj Žižek
Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get — Slavoj Žižek
Experts are by definition the servants of those in power: they don't really THINK, they just apply their knowledge to pr — Slavoj Žižek
We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending t — Slavoj Žižek
The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, su — Slavoj Žižek
Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream? — Slavoj Žižek
Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection. — Slavoj Žižek
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people — Slavoj Žižek
I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (...) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without — Slavoj Žižek
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Žižek