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

What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

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

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

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.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.