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

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.

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.

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

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

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