Slavoj Žižek Quotes

See you, either in Hell, or in Communism.

Slavoj Žižek

Parting remark in "The Culture Show" 2010.

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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.

Slavoj Žižek

Interview in HARDtalk, BBC World Service, 12th January 2010.

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"It is also crucial to bear in mind the interconnection between the Decalogue... and its modern obverse, the celebrated 'Human Rights'. As the experience of our post-political liberal-permissive...

Slavoj Žižek

"The fragile absolute: or, why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for?" Slavoj Žižek.

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"They are trying as directly as possible to sell you experiences, i.e. what you are able to do with the car, not the car as a product itself. An extreme example of this is this existing economic...

Slavoj Žižek

Interview with "The Believer" magazine, July 2004.

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Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates...

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Žižek! - 2005.

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Daly: In a sense, would you say that the age of biogenetics/cyberspace is the age of philosophy? Žižek: Yes, and the age of philosophy in the sense again that we are confronted more and more often...

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Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.

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With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful...

Slavoj Žižek

Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly 0- Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.

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I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so...

Slavoj Žižek

Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.

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I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn’t really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell,...

Slavoj Žižek

Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.

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

Slavoj Žižek

Last remark in an interview for the CN8 show Nitebeat - 2003.

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