"All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself."
- Alain Badiou
"Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me."
"Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and t..."
"I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply anencounter,..."
"It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has ..."
"There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?"
"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 disciplin..."
"Those who have nothing have only their discipline."