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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

It must on the contrary be named.

Alain Badiou

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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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  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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  Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

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  These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.

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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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  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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  We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.

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  Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

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  We have the riots we deserve.

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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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  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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  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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  In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

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  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.

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  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.

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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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