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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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