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

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.

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

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.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

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

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