Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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.
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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 is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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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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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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