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Alain Badiou has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established…
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,…
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed…
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will…
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to…
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So…
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic…
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
— Audre Lorde
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put…
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My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave…
— William Shakespeare
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I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst…
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
— Maria Edgeworth
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We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are…
— Carl Sagan
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It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.…
— Joseph O'Neill
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In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and…
— Jay E. Adams
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Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I…
— Confucius
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