"Work is only justified by leisure time. To……" — Guy Debord

"Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life."

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38 Quotes by Guy Debord

Guy Debord has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to…
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…
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved…
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics,…
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe…
What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is…
Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly…

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More Admit Quotes

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to… — Dave Barry
I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do… — Glenn Beck
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took… — Kate Beckinsale
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better… — Erma Bombeck
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United… — Bono
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. — Daniel Boone

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