There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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