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.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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 would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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