There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOUIf 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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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