Quotes by : Slavoj Žižek

What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point....

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a....

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little....

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we....

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling,....

We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed....

Sexuality is the only drive that is in itself hindered, perverted: simultaneously insufficient and excessive,....

Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy....

Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone....

Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do.....