Alain Badiou Quotes

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

Only force would produce social change.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutionists turn things upside down.

Changing a political system is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing everything up.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

A little rebellion is a good thing.