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It is thus quite simply false...

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

Alain Badiou 45 quotes

All resistance is a rupture w...

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

Alain Badiou 45 quotes

We know that communism is the...

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

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I am surprised to see that to...

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

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We must point out that in wha...

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 is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.

Alain Badiou 45 quotes

Love and politics are the two ...

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 minimal form of communism.

Alain Badiou 45 quotes

We have the riots we deserve....

We have the riots we deserve.

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Love without risk is an imposs...

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

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In order to improve democracy,...

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

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Emancipatory politics always c...

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

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There is no ethics in general....

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

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Those who have nothing have on...

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Alain Badiou 45 quotes

If you limit yourself to sexua...

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.

Alain Badiou 45 quotes

We must point out that in what...

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 is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.

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The ethic of truth is the comp...

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 opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

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The absolute contingency of th...

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 why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

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Evil is the interruption of a ...

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

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Our democracy is not perfect. ...

Our democracy is not perfect. But it's better than the bloody dictatorships. Capitalism is unjust. But it's not criminal like Stalinism. We let millions of Africans die of AIDS, but we don't make racist nationalist declarations like Milosevic. We kill Iraqis with our airplanes, but we don't cut their throats with machetes like they do in Rwanda, etc.

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A Truth is the subjective deve...

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 creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

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Evil is the moment when I lack...

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

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