Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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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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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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