But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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 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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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