Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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 kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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