Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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.
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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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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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