All Jean Baudrillard Quotes
- Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are… Abuse
- The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us… Abject
- The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can… Already Reproduced
- The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. Body
- As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of… Absolute
- The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one… Americans
- Genius is childhood recaptured. Childhood
- It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. Believe
- You are born modern, you do not become so. Born
- Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Anticipate
- It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. Analyze
- I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again Afraid
- Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the… Alone
- Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even… All
- 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 day… Animal
- The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your… Carry
- We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for… All
- We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow… Artificial
- Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it… Blood
- Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in… Accident
- Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to… Abject
- Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Dark
- Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night. Brings
- The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the… Admirable
- You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting… Ahead