Slavoj Zizek Quotes

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs of justice, for a few molecules of citizenship rights.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Do not give voice to bigotry.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

The day of reckoning came, and that day was the Terror. The heirs of those who toiled made their account with the heirs of those who played.

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.