There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOUThere 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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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