I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOULove is not a contract between two narcissists.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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