Author of quotes: Slavoj Zizek

Linovskoe definition of love ("to love is to give what one does not have...") should be supplemented: "the one who does not want it".

Sometimes doing nothing is the highest expression of violence.

Threat of our days - not passivity, but pseudoactivity, the requirement to be "active", "participate", to cover up the Insignificance of what is happening. People always something interfering, "doing something", academics participate in meaningless debates, etc. really hard to pull back, to pull away. The government often prefers dialogue, participation, even critical, silence - it would only involve us in a "dialogue", to make sure that our ominous silence broken. And because the abstinence of citizens from voting is a genuinely political act: it powerfully brings us face to face with the vacuity of modern democracies.

It [hate] works by breaking down lover to the man I love, and the true object-cause of my love to him, that in him more than himself [from Kierkegaard's God]. Sometimes hatred is the only proof that I really love you.

The exemplary figures of Evil today are not ordinary consumers who pollute environment and live in the violent world of disintegration of social ties, and those who, being fully involved in such universal devastation and pollution, buy their freedom from the results of their own activities, settling here permanently closed to unauthorized areas eating organic food, spending holidays in wildlife preserves, etc.

Don't think you get what you want, if you win under the flag of democracy. Today is not the struggle of ideologies, but a struggle of different "capitalisms".

Know the difference between the last "James bond" from all the past? There in the final no sex! Where do we go if Hollywood he carves the sex of his paintings in order to ensure box office?

Six months ago I was in South Korea lectures on the crisis of global capitalism. Well, you know, the usual "blah, blah, blah". Then the audience suddenly started to laugh and say, "what are you talking About? Look at us. China, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore - with the economy all right. So who then is slid in a crisis? That you have a crisis in your Western Europe or, to be more precise, in parts of Western Europe." <...> China, Singapore, India... or to get closer to us - Turkey does not predict anything good for future. I believe that modern capitalism is developing in the direction in which it is better to operate without a fully developed democracy. The rise of so-called capitalism with Asian values in the last 10 years at least puts doubts and questions: what if the authoritarian capitalism of the Chinese model is a manifestation of the fact that liberal democracy, as we understand it, is no longer a prerequisite and driving force for economic development and instead got in his way?

"Healthy" consumption - when you consume something without its real essence: donuts without sugar, coffee without caffeine, sex without having sex.