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.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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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.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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