Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUBut more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
-
-
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOU -
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOU -
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOU -
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.
ALAIN BADIOU -
It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
ALAIN BADIOU -
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOU -
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOU -
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOU -
The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOU -
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.
ALAIN BADIOU -
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOU -
Without mathematics, we are blind.
ALAIN BADIOU -
It must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOU -
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOU -
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
ALAIN BADIOU