Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOUBut more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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