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.
ALAIN BADIOUIt is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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