Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUTo believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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