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Ethics Quote by Alain Badiou

“There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?” quote by Alain Badiou — Download Open image

““There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?””

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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 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…

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

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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the…

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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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Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

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“Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.”

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He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Albert Schweitzer

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My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

Ezra Taft Benson

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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

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Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

Guy de Rothschild

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“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

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There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we…

Alan Dershowitz

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I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

Roger Spottiswoode

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