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 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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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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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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