Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOUlet 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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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.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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 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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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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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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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