All Guy Debord Quotes
- Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. Always Counter
- The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image. Accumulated
- The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is… Bad
- The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is… Achievement
- Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. Alienation
- What appears is good; what is good appears. Appears
- No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that… Any
- Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question… Account
- With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. Contemporary
- Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the… Accepting
- What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly… Any
- Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best… Among
- The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life. Advertisements
- Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. Admit
- Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes… Abundance
- All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. All
- In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… Accumulation
- It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are… Absolute
- As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that… Actually Live
- 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… Capable