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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.