Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOULet us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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