Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity.… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the limit limits;… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial,… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“The 'economy of number' proposed by Peano is an economy of signs whose paradigm is algebraic, whose transparency is consensual, and whose operational effectiveness… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
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. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
