In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

I will passionately perform my work.

... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.

Nature's mighty law is change.

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

Be somebody for your kids to look up to.