The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUAll 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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