All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
ALAIN BADIOUI would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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