I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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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 can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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