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“the ongoing crises impose on us the urge to sacrifice our historical form of humanity, of what it means to be human to us now, and to assert ourselves as pure abyssal subject.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“As Benjamin put it, the present struggle is a struggle through which the past itself will be redeemed, which means that past and future are not external opposites: there is a future dimension inscribed into the past itself.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“What science has ‘determinedâ€� remembrance can modify.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“We are in the midst of a process that is “not only destined to make labor more flexible but to eradicate the reality of labor as a collective form of life and struggle in order to make it a mere private affair for individuals managing their ‘human capitalâ€�,â€�66 and in this situation, the hegemonic ideology desperately tries to dismiss all signs of the persistence of class struggle (trade unions, strikes, etc.) as “anachronisms.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“We should learn to trust science: it is only with the help of science that we can overcome our problems (caused, among other things, by science in the service of power). We should learn to trust public authority: only such an authority makes it possible to confront dangers such as pandemics and environmental catastrophes by way of imposing necessary measures. We should learn to trust the big Other, the shared space of basic values: without it, solidarity is not possible. We don’t need the freedom to be different, we need the freedom to choose how to be the same in a new way. And, perhaps most difficult, we should be ready to abandon many of the common-sense beliefs and practices that form our way of life. To be truly conservative today, to fight for what is worth saving in our traditions, means to engage in a radical change. The old conservative motto “some things have to change so that everything remains the sameâ€� has acquired a new weight today: many things will have to change radically for us to remain human.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“The paradox is thus that, to defeat the external threat (of globalist domination), one should begin by sacrificing the very heart of what we feel is threatened.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Therein resides the material power of ideology: it not only trains us to tolerate power, or even to actively participate in our own submission. It cheats on us by the very act of warning us against being cheated, i.e., it does not count on our trust (in the public order and its values) but on our very distrust—its underlying message is: “Don’t trust those in power, you are being manipulated, and here is how you can avoid being duped!”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“you are always guilty/responsible for your enjoyment, even when what brings you to enjoy is externally imposed on you.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the same goes for many critical (or fictional) reports on the horrors of capitalism: it is as if the brutal and open critique of capitalism is immediately co-opted, included in the capitalist self-reproduction.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“after the complete psychotic breakdown, the paranoiac construct is an attempt of the subject to reestablish a kind of order in his universe, a frame of reference enabling him to acquire a “cognitive mapping.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“what appears as falsification just proves the strength of the deceiving big Other.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“this overcoming of doubt by a total explanation, a meaning of it all, provides an immense surplus-enjoyment.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“even though some conspiracies really exist, there is still something pathological that pertains to conspiracy theories, some surplus investment that is not reducible to these or those facts.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“even if most of the Nazi claims about the Jews were true (they exploited Germans, they seduced German girlsâ€�)—which they were not, of course—their anti-Semitism would still be (and was) a pathological phenomenon because it repressed the true reason why the Nazis needed anti-Semitism in order to sustain their ideological position. In the Nazi vision, their society was an organic Whole of harmonious collaboration, so an external intruder was needed to account for divisions and antagonisms.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“In many African and Asian countries, the gay movement is also perceived as an expression of the cultural impact of capitalist globalization and of its undermining of traditional social and cultural forms, so that, consequently, the struggle against gays appears as an aspect of the anti-colonial struggle.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“No, it was not neocons who boosted Islamic fundamentalism; this fundamentalism grew in a reaction to the influence of Western liberal secularism and individualism.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“After the triumph of global capitalism, this spirit of collective engagement was repressed, and now this repressed stance seems to return in the guise of religious fundamentalism.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“As engaged subjects, we have to act with a view to the future, but for a priori reasons we cannot base our decisions on a rational pattern of historical progress (as Marx thought), so we have to improvise and take risks.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“attempts to pacify the antagonism (“self-contradictionâ€�) of the Void.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“how should destitution in its politically engaged form avoid the fall into perversity? The answer is clear: it should suspend its reliance on the big Other (on historical necessity, etc.).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the antagonism/tension in the very heart of the Void which causes the emergence of material reality out of the Void.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“the danger of falling into a perverse position of conceiving oneself as an object-instrument of the big Other.)”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“In a destructive explosion, we contract into ourselves by way of destroying our environment; in nirvana, we just withdraw into ourselves leaving reality the way it is. In mystical experience, we disengage from reality by immersing ourselves in divinity; in revolutionary destitution, we renounce our Self by engaging in the historical process of revolutionary change.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“active engagement (self-destructive social explosion; revolutionary destitution described by Giri) versus disengagement (nirvana, mystical experience); self-contraction (destructive explosion against external reality; nirvana) versus reliance on a big Other (God in mystical experience, History in revolutionary destitution).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“identification with the symptom, a gesture that enables us a moderately acceptable form of life.)”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“for Lacan, fantasy is not opposed to reality but provides the coordinates of what we experience as reality, plus the coordinates of what we desire—the two coordinates are not the same, but they are intertwined (when our fundamental fantasy dissolves, we experience the loss of reality which also impedes our ability to desire).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“while in nirvana one steps out of the “wheel of desire,â€� the mystical experience enacts the overlapping of our enjoyment with the enjoyment of the big Other.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“through subjective destitution subject is radically divided: into a pure void and the object that he is. In this way, we overcome mortality and enter undeadness: not life after death but death in life, not dis-alienation but extreme self-abolishing alienation—we leave behind the very standard by means of which we measure alienation, the notion of a normal warm daily life, of our full immersion in the safe and stable world of customs. The way to overcome the topsy-turvy world is not to return to normality but to embrace turvy without topsy.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“Joris Ivens”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

“since there is no unchangeable human nature, our very intimate fear of death is already politically overdetermined, for it arises in an individualist and egotistical society with little sense of communal solidarity;”
― Slavoj Žižek, Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed