Assumption Quote by Alain Badiou

“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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“The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how…

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“The audacity of thought is not to repeat 'to the limit' that which is already entirely retained within the situation which the limit limits;…

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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

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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,…

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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

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We have the riots we deserve.

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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

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“The 'economy of number' proposed by Peano is an economy of signs whose paradigm is algebraic, whose transparency is consensual, and whose operational effectiveness…

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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

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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…

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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. We need to…

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