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.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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