Slavoj Zizek

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

— Slavoj Zizek

#i #i can #love #making #only

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

#am #being #being alone #books #changed

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

#been #born #few #few people #goes

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#exists #i #reality #secretly #speculate

Communism will win. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#will #win

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#analyses #best #communist #consider #failure

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

#ask #effectively #instinct #left #means

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

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #communist #i #i am #local