Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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