Collapse Quote by Jean Baudrillard Download Open image “We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.” — Jean Baudrillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collapse Dealing Historical Events Historical Historical events History Places Collapse
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion.… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in,… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
The infrastructure will collapse. Voltage spikes. Throw your keys in the bowl. Kiss your husband goodnight. — Radiohead Copy Share Image
I love that the collapse of The Other Side is being felt in both 'The Vampire Diaries' and 'The Originals' universes - as someone… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations… — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans.… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
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