In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
Alain BadiouI 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.
Alain BadiouThere is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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