If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
