Slavoj Zizek Ideology Quotes

#1. 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.

Slavoj Zizek

#2. The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

David Almond

#3. We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

James Cook

#4. If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.

Slavoj Zizek

#5. That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

Annie Besant

#6. Before Charles could stop her, Agatha, nervous, had launched into a full brag of all the cases she had solved.

M.C. Beaton

#7. So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.

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#8. It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk.
What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get.

Slavoj Zizek

#9. I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

Slavoj Zizek

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

Slavoj Zizek

#11. Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not

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#12. There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

Robert Breault

#13. Students frequently misbehave because they (1) want and need attention from adults and peers, (2) are trying to avoid a difficult or unpleasant task (too difficult, too easy, too boring), or (3) for some older students, revenge.

Barbara D. Bateman

#14. You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological.

Slavoj Zizek

#15. I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

Veronica Roth

#16. For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.

Slavoj Zizek

#17. 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.

Slavoj Zizek

#18. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

C.S. Lewis

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

Slavoj Zizek