Skip to content

Modern society Quote by Guy Debord

“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.” quote by Guy Debord — Download Open image

““The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Modern society Sleep

More by Guy Debord

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

Image

“The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal,…

Image

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement…

Image

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

Image

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.”

Image

“But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.”

Image

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Image

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be…

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates,…

Image

“In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”

Image

What appears is good; what is good appears.

Image

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Image

Explore all 67 Guy Debord quotes

More Modern society quotes

We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be…

W. J. T. Mitchell

Image

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

Alan Dershowitz

Image

“At the same time that we see a massive deployment of wireless radiation, we see the most violent attacks on modern society.”

Image

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly…

Image

Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all…

Honore de Balzac

Image

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the…

“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including…

Image

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution…

Douglas MacArthur

Image

“The word “yoga” has become synonymous with physical postures in modern society, which is a narrow view, of course. Nevertheless, the popularity of yoga postures is a good thing. Once practitioners get a taste of the benefits that come from yoga postures, it is natural to look to the broader scope of yoga methods that are available, ultimately leading many…

“It was exactly the sort of person, like Joan of Arc, who did know why women wore skirts, who was most justified in not wearing one; it was exactly the sort of person, like St. Francis, who did sympathise with the feast and the fireside, who was most entitled to become a beggar on the open road. And when, in…

G.K. Chesterton

“Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to Type I processing mechanisms of low computational expense. Using less computational capacity for one task means that there is more left over for another task if they both must be completed simultaneously. This would seem to be adaptive. Nevertheless, this strong bias to default to the simplest cognitive…

Keith E. Stanovich

“For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of Saudis and Kuwaitis for things Western, from McDonald's hamburgers to Rolex watches to Cadillac limousines. but importing Western good is easy; importing the inner stuffing of modern society - a free market, political parties, accountability, the rule of…

Browse all 326 Modern society quotes