Alain Badiou on general
Alain Badiou52 quotes“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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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Without mathematics, we are blind.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly.
Sogyal RinpocheSogyal Rinpoche General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht The left, of course, will say Carson doesn’t believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn’t believe in fighting stupid wars. And – and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran’s terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.
Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.
Beth BrookeBeth Brooke Only bad generals need heroes.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
Bernard LownBernard Lown They’re trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
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