Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOUPolitics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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