Mere Contemplation Quotes by Guy Debord

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• Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
• The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
• The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep.…
• The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this…
• Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
• What appears is good; what is good appears.
• No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately…
• Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It…
• With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations…
• Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are…
• What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is…
• Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how…

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