" Again, you are right in suggesting in your question that what drew me into so-called 'real politics' was this absolute urgency to avoid any beautiful soul syndrome - you know, like the worst thinker doing all the better because he or she can then write a good critique of how things are going. No, I think that if you play politics you should go to the end in a cruel pragmatic way. I didn't have any problems at this level. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Conversations with Žižek