Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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 order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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We 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.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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