Slavoj Zizek

The truly subversive act is not to break the rules, but to follow them to their absurd conclusion.

I am a communist in the same way that a Christian is a Christian. It's a belief, not a political program.

The more you try to escape your fate, the more you fulfill it.

I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in interesting endings.

The only way to be truly free is to recognize your own servitude.

I am a dialectical materialist, which means I believe in contradictions.

The problem is not that people are stupid, but that they are too smart for their own good.

I am a Hegelian. I believe that everything is already contained in the beginning.

The only way to be truly ethical is to be profoundly immoral.

I don't believe in progress. I believe in repetition, but with a difference.

The greatest illusion is the illusion of choice.

I am a revolutionary, but I am also a conservative. I want to conserve the revolutionary impulse.

The only way to be truly authentic is to be completely artificial.

I don't believe in reality. I believe in the symbolic order.

The ultimate freedom is to be able to say no.

I am a philosopher, which means I am professionally confused.

The most dangerous thing is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I believe in an after-death.

The only way to overcome a problem is to embrace it.

I am a communist. I am not ashamed. I am proud.