Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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