Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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 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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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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