In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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In 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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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