Slavoj Zizek

The greatest danger is not external, but internal.

The true meaning of freedom is to choose your own limitations.

The only way to be truly human is to be truly inhuman.

The greatest act of courage is to be afraid and still act.

The problem is not lack of choice, but too much choice.

The true revolutionary is the one who dares to be boring.

The greatest evil is not to do evil, but to do nothing.

The true meaning of life is to find a meaning that is not there.

The greatest challenge is not to change the world, but to change our perception of it.

We are all living in a simulation, and we don't know it.

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology.

Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing—I cannot tell you how much.

The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

I'm ready to sell my mother into slavery just to fuck you forever.

If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.