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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Alain Badiou

What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
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 BADIOU

Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
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 BADIOU

Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Atheist Inhuman Main
Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Blind Mathematics
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communism Hypothesis Know Right
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 BADIOU

Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely
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 BADIOU

Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOU

Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOU

But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOU

Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communication Complete Ethics Opposite Truth
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 BADIOU

Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today

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