Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOUI would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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