Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOUI feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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 without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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