Slavoj Zizek Quotes

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

The legitimacy of the West is contested by the very skepticism it holds so dear.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Fighting against communism is as beneficial as praying.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

The revision of any kind of established model is always a political act.

He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.

I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.

Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.