More quotes by Slavoj Zizek

"When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!"
"The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth."
"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
"When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks."