“In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.” Quote by Slavoj Žižek
“Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.” IdeasGuyEasyRealizingSucceedPhenomenonFascismBad GuysNazismBad IdeasReactionaries Author:Slavoj Žižek
“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.” DutyOughtDeservePraise Author:Saint Augustine
“In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.” KindProjectsTragedyWorkersRadicalEmancipationUprisingEnigmaStalinism Author:Slavoj Žižek
“Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?” FactsCapitalismAcceptedAccommodateExcluded Author:Slavoj Žižek
“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.” KindCareGuyCertainOrderHealthySolidarityTypicalIdeologicalStanceOrganic Food Author:Slavoj Žižek
“For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.” WorldOrderSocialMeaningfulIdeologyDefinedRelateTensionSocial OrderAntagonismCoordinates Author:Slavoj Žižek
“You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.” ThinkingEconomicDevelopmentDetermineExtremesIdeologicalEconomic Development Author:Slavoj Žižek
“You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological.” WayCertainReligiousPositionIdeologyDataDescribingIdeologicalMystic Author:Slavoj Žižek
“The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.” DutyPoliticianExpertsRepresentativesExpertise Author:Slavoj Žižek
“The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.” ProblemActorsPoliticianGovernorsSchwarzenegger Author:Slavoj Žižek