Slavoj Zizek Says...

The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other.
---- Slavoj Žižek

The stance of maintaining a proper distance towards the beloved object in order not to disturb its spell is a sure sign of false love: true love is "not afraid to get close", it is a readiness to accept the beloved object in all its common reality and, simultaneously, retain its sublime status...to recognize the rose of the sublime in the cross of everday vulgarity.
---- Zizek, The Sublime Object

Tolerance makes everything boring, we need more conflict!
---- Slavoj Zizek

Niels Bohr said of a superstition: "It works even if you don't believe in it".
---- Slavoj Zizek

Science today effectively does compete with religion, insofar as it serves two properly ideological needs, those for hope and those for censorship, which were traditionally taken care of by religion. [...]
In a curious inversion, religion is one of the possible places from which one can deploy critical doubts about today’s society. It has become one of the sites of resistance.
---- Zizek, Violence.

Step back; [It] enables us to identify a violence that sustains our very efforts to fight violence and promote tolerance: rampant pseudo-urgency.
---- Slavoj Zizek, Violence

...Don’t be - don’t feel guilty for withdrawing from immediate engagement, for trying to understand what’s going on.
---- Slavoj Zizek

Atheists strive to formulate the message of joy which comes not from escaping reality, but from accepting it and creatively finding one’s place in it. What makes this materialist tradition unique is the way it combines the humble awareness that we are not masters of the universe, but just a part of a much larger whole exposed to contingent twists of fate, with a readiness to accept the heavy burden of responsibility for what we make out of our lives.
---- Slavoj Zizek, Violence