All Jean Baudrillard Quotes
- Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide. Death
- Power floats like money, like language, like theory. Floats
- Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. Boredom
- Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for… Alone
- Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter,… Acquired
- A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her… Afterwards
- Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an… Abstraction
- Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life… Blank
- Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special… Authentic
- Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate… Ability
- The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a… All
- 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? By… Adverts