Jean Baudrillard Quotes

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• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
• The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
• There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
• Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a…
• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a…
• It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
• Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
• The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is…
• Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
• Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
• Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of…
• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession…
• Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may…
• In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of…
• Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
• We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
• At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than…

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