Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUAll 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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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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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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 a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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