But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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