In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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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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