black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Alain Badiou

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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOU

But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
ALAIN BADIOU

Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOU

Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOU

Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOU

Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
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
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Connect Limit Narcissistic Other Pleasure Sexual Yourself
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
ALAIN BADIOU

Burden Change Declare Destiny Horrify Love Mark Perilous Stage Transform
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contact Love Narcissist Two
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
ALAIN BADIOU

After Day Defeat Encounter Endure Extend Field Invention Love Randomness Signify Victory
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU

Discipline Have Nothing Only
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Atheist Inhuman Main

Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alain Badiou Quotes