For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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