The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
ALAIN BADIOULove 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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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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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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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