Guy Debord Quotes
Guy Debord Quotes
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
4108Never work.
4682 Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
1402 Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
1873 In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
4074 The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
2088 Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
1822 The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.
4415 There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
3918 The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
3862 He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
4030 On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.
1468 Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.
4923 Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.
4455 Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.
2565 Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.
4919 Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.
1375 Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-même.
2754 Dont tout «avoir» effectif doit tirer son prestige immédiat et sa fonction dernière.
4485 Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre.
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