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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.

Alain Badiou

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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely
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 BADIOU

End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communism Hypothesis Know Right
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art Atheist Inhuman Main
Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Blind Mathematics
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
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’.
ALAIN BADIOU

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Almost Kind Love Paradise Serenity
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
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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All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU

Discipline Have Nothing Only

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