Alain Badiou Quotes

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• A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of…
• Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
• Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
• For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is…
• These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular…
• Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with…
• Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
• In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
• There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,
• The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's…
• Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the…
• The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is…
• We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event…
• If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
• Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
• In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
• To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is…
• 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 invent…
• 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.
• 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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