But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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 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.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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