Slavoj Zizek Quotes

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. - Slavoj Zizek

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. - Slavoj Zizek

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks. - Slavoj Zizek

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. - Slavoj Zizek

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. - Slavoj Zizek

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not. - Slavoj Zizek

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. - Slavoj Zizek

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it. - Slavoj Zizek

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