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 BADIOUAll 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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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