There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. — 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 is therefore not in doubt. He thus participates forcefully in that movement of thought, victorious today, that wrests mathematics from its antique philosophical pedestal and represents it to us as a grammar of signs where all… — Alain Badiou Copy Share
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
