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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.

Alain Badiou

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
ALAIN BADIOU

After Day Defeat Encounter Endure Extend Field Invention Love Randomness Signify Victory
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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Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Consist Declare Emancipatory Impose Make Politics Possible Precisely Seem Situation
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOU

Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contact Love Narcissist Two
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOU

Age Dance Let Malady Often Paas Philosophical Remedy Say Worse
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Country Elsewhere New Truth Word
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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All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Civil Course Institution Kind Latter Media Notably Science Television Trade Union
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
ALAIN BADIOU

Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely

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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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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