Quotessence
Home / Authors / Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou Quotes

Philosopher

Filter quotes by topic

AllArtCapitalismKindOrderPhilosophySituationDemocracyEthicsFormLove IsMathematicsProcessRealSaint PaulTruth IsTwoUniversalismBelieveCommunismContrary

Famous Alain Badiou Quotes

“To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers”

MenBelieveYoungExistenceCarCrimeCapitalismMachinesWorkersYoung ManShopsPrincipalCommodityAlienationPrimacy
Book:The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings
Create image

“I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.”

WayMeanDoeMomentsTodayFormSimpleModernAmountPureCapitalismCaughtDefinitionsSurrenderAll TimeDominantOld Fashioned
Author:Alain Badiou
Create image

“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.”

KnowsStatesCharacterFormNaturalEconomyDemocracyCapitalismInequalityCommunismInevitableAbandonHypothesisMonstrousMarket EconomyParliamentaryParliamentary Democracy
Author:Alain Badiou
Create image