Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?
Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots. - Slavoj Žižek
Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.
- Slavoj Žižek
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, … - Slavoj Žižek
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, …
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction. - Slavoj Žižek
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions. - Slavoj Žižek
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.
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
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.
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. - Slavoj Žižek
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them. - Slavoj Žižek
If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.
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 Žižek
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.
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. - Slavoj Žižek
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
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