Guy Debord Short Quotes

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

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All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

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The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

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He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

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I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

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Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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

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Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.

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The Mafia is not an outsider in this world; it is perfectly at home. Indeed, in the integrated spectacle it stands as the model of all advanced commercial enterprises.

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The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

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In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.

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As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

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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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The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

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With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

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What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.

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