It must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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