When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.

Badiou makes it clear that what the media call the 'radicalization of Muslims is Fascistization pure and simple:"this Fascism is the obverse of the frustrated desire for the West which is organized in a more or less military way following the flexible model of a mafia gang and with variable ideological colorizations where the place occupied by religion is purely formal.

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.