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.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil 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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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 know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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