We have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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