Alain Badiou > Quotes

“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”
― Alain Badiou, Metapolitics

“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.”
― Alain Badiou, Conditions

“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
― Alain Badiou, Ethics

“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 a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.”
― Alain Badiou, The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics

“Those who have nothing have only their discipline.”
― Alain Badiou

“Mieux vaut un désastre qu'un désêtre.”
― Alain Badiou, Conditions

“We pose only those questions whose answers are the pre-given conditions of the questions themselves.”
― Alain Badiou, The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics

“Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.”
― Alain Badiou, In Praise Of Love