Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.
Slavoj ŽižekThere is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a very modest attempt to build a space where people could live together without slaughtering one another.
Slavoj ŽižekThe fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
Slavoj Žižek