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

- Alain Badiou

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 …

- Alain Badiou

Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has s…

- Alain Badiou

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

- Alain Badiou

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

- Alain Badiou

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

- Alain Badiou

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 min…

- Alain Badiou

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

- Alain Badiou

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

- Alain Badiou