"Art need no longer be an account of……" — Guy Debord
"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us."
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38 Quotes by Guy Debord
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
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The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
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The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish…
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to…
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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
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What appears is good; what is good appears.
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No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead…
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With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics,…
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Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe…
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What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is…
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Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly…
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The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but…
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited…
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
— Saul Bellow
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the…
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
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