Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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 interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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