Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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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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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 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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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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