Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUTo 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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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.
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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