Alain Badiou Quotes

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

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

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

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.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

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

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.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

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

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

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

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.

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.

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

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

We have the riots we deserve.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

Without mathematics, we are blind.

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

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'.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?