More quotes by Slavoj Zizek

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
"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!"
"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
"How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem today is not how to get rid of your inhibitions and to be able to spontaneously enjoy. The problem is how to get rid of this injunction to enjoy."
"€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff."