These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
Alain BadiouIn love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain BadiouEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
Alain BadiouWe 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.
Alain Badiou