Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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