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.
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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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