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Slavoj Žižek Quotes: 7

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem today is not how to get rid of your inhibitions and to be able to spontaneously enjoy. The problem is how to get rid of this injunction to enjoy.
€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.