All Alain Badiou Quotes
- 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… According
- Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. All
- Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. Compels
- 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… Cruelty
- 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… All
- 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… Aesthetic
- Love is not a contract between two narcissists. Contract
- In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure. Day
- There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise, Inspirational
- 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… Absolute
- 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… Collective
- 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… Absolutely
- 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… Accept
- 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. Connect
- Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. Evil
- In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed. Brecht
- 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… Alienation
- 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… Discipline
- 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. Assumption
- All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. All
- Those who have nothing have only their discipline. Discipline
- Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Death
- What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world… Believe
- We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up… Adventure
- I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always. Assured