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Alain Badiou Inspirational Quotes (34)

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We have the riots we deserve.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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 order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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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 up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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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 powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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 of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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