For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
ALAIN BADIOUIn love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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 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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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