Guy Debord Quotes

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• Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
• 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…
• Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
• Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
• 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…
• The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
• In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
• I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
• 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 story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in…
• He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
• The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
• ... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
• None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
• The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems…
• Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
• Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents…
• In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent…

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