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One Quotes by Jean Baudrillard
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to…
- The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who…
- One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the…
- The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their…
- It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.
- We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,…
- If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.…
- The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration…
- One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
- Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle