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

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  Liking Someone, Taste, Aggressive

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.

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  Sex, Couple, Europe

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• My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

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  People, Covering, Way

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• The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Distance, Ingredients, Ideology

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• 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.

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  Reality, Consistency, Fiction

  Slavoj Žižek (1993). “Tarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology”, Duke University Press Books

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• Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

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  Jobs, Becoming, Privilege

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• Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.

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  Careers, White, Guy

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• Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

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  Today, Ideology, Sincerely

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• For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Philosophical, Interesting, Trials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Behavior, Humans, Our Lives

  Source: www.electronicbookreview.com

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• As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

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  Class, Enemy, Add

  YouTube Channel "planetjanet"/"Slavoj Žižek interview on NiteBeat", www.youtube.com. June 25, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Order, Guy, Healthy

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations

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  Creating, Space, Goal

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• Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.

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  Self, Color, Tears

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out”, p.51, Psychology Press

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• 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?

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  Facts, Accepted, Capitalism

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• We need useless theory more than ever today.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Needs, Useless, Today

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• There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.

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  Names, Achievement, World

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Revolution at the Gates: A Selection of Writings from February to October 1917”, p.311, Verso

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• 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.

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  Dedication, Tests, Ethical

  Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”, p.68, Verso

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• Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

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  Unique, Blah, Standards

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

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  Distance, Native American, White

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• What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on.

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  Law, Order, Want

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• Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

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  Thinking, Rights, Tolerance

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• 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 Žižek

  Being Happy, Children, Book

  Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.

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  Symphony, Wife, Way

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• The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new
  political universality by opting for the impossible,
  fully assuming the place of the exception, with no
  taboos, no a priori norms (‘human rights,’ ‘democracy’),
  respect for which would prevent us from ‘resignifying’
  terror, the ruthless exercise of power, the spirit of
  sacrifice … if this radical choice is decried by some
  bleeding-heart liberals as Linksfaschismus, so be it!

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  Heart, Exercise, Sacrifice

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