Slavoj Žižek

The tragedy is that Israel, which resulted from Europe’s guilt over the Holocaust, is becoming a symbol of European oppression and colonisation.

The situation in Sudan exposes a global economic logic that has remained obfuscated in other cases.

We all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.

I fought for years with and for Julian Assange. In what sense are we who breathe the fresh air outside prisons still free?

If enough people despair of emancipatory politics and accept the withdrawal into buffoonery, the political space for neo-fascism widens.

Today’s anti-war protests are but a desperate plea simply to stop the killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.

The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.

If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.

Whenever a country’s social contract unravels, conditions become ripe for rumours and absurdities to circulate.

We need people like Assange to force such reckonings – to make us see “those in the darkness.”

A massive expansion of AI capabilities is a serious threat to those in power – including those who develop, own, and control AI. It points to nothing less than the end of capitalism as we know it.

Those who would claim neutrality forfeit their standing to complain about the horrors of colonisation anywhere.

Russia’s reversion to warlordism is fuelled by a religious fundamentalism.

For political figures like Trump and Putin, courage is redefined as a willingness to break the state’s laws if the state’s own interests – or their own – demand it. The implication is that civilisation endures only if there are brave patriots who will do the dirty work. This is a decidedly right-wing form of “heroism.” It is easy to act nobly on behalf of one’s country – short of sacrificing one’s life for it – but only the strong of heart can bring themselves to commit crimes for it.

Ethical progress produces a beneficial form of dogmatism.

Peaceniks argue that Russia needs a victory or concession that will allow it to 'save face.'

We in the West have no right to treat Iran as a country that is desperately trying to catch up with us.

By treating Israel’s colonisation of Palestine as a defensive struggle, Ukraine is validating its senseless aggression.

More is at stake in Ukraine than many commentators seem to appreciate. In a world beset by the effects of climate change, fertile land will be an increasingly valuable asset.