--- title: "13 Ifs Quotes By Jean Baudrillard" description: "13 Ifs quotes by Jean Baudrillard. Plus more from Jean Baudrillard and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/jean-baudrillard-1500_brain_if-we-consider-the-superiority-of-the-hu_736457.jpg" --- > [If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-we-consider-the-superiority-of-the-human-species-the-size-of-its/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/jean-baudrillard-1500_brain_if-we-consider-the-superiority-of-the-hu_736457.jpg) > [If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-everything-on-television-is-without-exception-part-of-a-low/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53e/jean-baudrillard-1500_advertising_if-everything-on-television-is-without-e_434127.jpg) > [Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/terror-is-as-much-a-part-of-the-concept-of-truth-as-runniness-is-of/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaa/jean-baudrillard-1500_blood_terror-is-as-much-a-part-of-the-concept_2803797.jpg) > [Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/here-in-the-u-s-culture-is-not-that-delicious-panacea-which-we/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9be/jean-baudrillard-1500_cinema_here-in-the-u-s-culture-is-not-that-deli_2999954.jpg) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-everything-is-perfect-language-is-useless-this-is-true-for-animals/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1e/jean-baudrillard-1500_animal_if-everything-is-perfect-language-is-use_132608.jpg) > [If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-you-assume-any-rate-of-improvement-at-all-then-the-games-will/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d50/jean-baudrillard-1500_assuming_if-you-assume-any-rate-of-improvement-at_759242.jpg) > [Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/business-owners-are-like-joggers-if-you-stop-a-jogger-he-goes-on/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ed/jean-baudrillard-1500_business_business-owners-are-like-joggers-if-you_803254.jpg) > [A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/a-woman-spent-all-christmas-day-in-a-telephone-box-without-ringing/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91d/jean-baudrillard-1500_boxes_a-woman-spent-all-christmas-day-in-a-tel_759271.jpg) > [If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-there-is-a-species-which-is-more-maltreated-than-children-then-it/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9a/jean-baudrillard-1500_adults_if-there-is-a-species-which-is-more-malt_607732.jpg) > [If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-you-are-prepared-to-accept-the-consequences-of-your-dreams-then/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/355/jean-baudrillard-1500_accepting_if-you-are-prepared-to-accept-the-conseq_414895.jpg) > [The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-desert-is-a-natural-extension-of-the-inner-silence-of-the-body-if/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/042/jean-baudrillard-1500_absence_the-desert-is-a-natural-extension-of-the_223029.jpg) > [The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-war-was-won-on-both-sides-by-the-vietnamese-on-the-ground-by-the/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/jean-baudrillard-1500_apocalypse_the-war-was-won-on-both-sides-by-the-vie_2616197.jpg) > [The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-need-to-speak-even-if-one-has-nothing-to-say-becomes-more/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/jean-baudrillard-1500_ifs_the-need-to-speak-even-if-one-has-nothin_1522278.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Jean Baudrillard > [“The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-whole-gestural-system-of-work-was-also-obscene-in-sharp-contrast/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/we-will-live-in-this-world-which-for-us-has-all-the-disquieting/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/holidays-are-in-no-sense-an-alternative-to-the-congestion-and-bustle/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/there-is-nothing-funny-about-halloween-this-sarcastic-festival/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-sickly-cultural-pathos-which-the-whole-of-france-indulges-in-that/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/we-need-a-visible-past-a-visible-continuum-a-visible-myth-of-origin/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/history-that-repeats-itself-turns-to-farce-farce-that-repeats-itself/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/perhaps-our-eyes-are-merely-a-blank-film-which-is-taken-from-us-after/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-everything-is-perfect-language-is-useless-this-is-true-for-animals/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/there-exists-between-people-in-love-a-kind-of-capital-held-by-each/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/when-the-real-is-no-longer-what-it-used-to-be-nostalgia-assumes-its/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/with-the-truth-you-need-to-get-rid-of-it-as-soon-as-possible-and-pass/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [You have to know how to disappear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/you-have-to-know-how-to-disappear/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/large-department-stores-with-their-luxuriant-abundance-of-canned/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-sad-thing-about-artificial-intelligence-is-that-it-lacks-artifice/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/jean-baudrillard/#itemlist", "name": "13 Ifs Quotes By Jean Baudrillard", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jean Baudrillard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-we-consider-the-superiority-of-the-human-species-the-size-of-its/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/jean-baudrillard-1500_brain_if-we-consider-the-superiority-of-the-hu_736457.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/jean-baudrillard-1500_brain_if-we-consider-the-superiority-of-the-hu_736457.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/jean-baudrillard-1500_brain_if-we-consider-the-superiority-of-the-hu_736457.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language…” — Jean Baudrillard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? 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