188 Quotes by Slavoj Zizek

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to “be active”, to “participate”, to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things – they always do. It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also – even more, perhaps – the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

It’s bad if we are controlled, but if we’re not, it can be even worse.

A typical guy who buys organic food doesn’t really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.

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.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves.