Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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 attests to what is inhuman in man.
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