|

|

Advertisements

Guy Debord Quotes

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures Picture Quote #1

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation Picture Quote #1

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea Picture Quote #1

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity Picture Quote #1

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs Picture Quote #1

No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing Picture Quote #1

It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak Picture Quote #1

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image Picture Quote #1

The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life Picture Quote #1

What appears is good; what is good appears Picture Quote #1

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life Picture Quote #1

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea Picture Quote #1

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation Picture Quote #1

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal Picture Quote #1

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit Picture Quote #1

No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state’s monopoly of armed violence Picture Quote #1

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 from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images Picture Quote #1

1 2

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures (Guy Debord Quotes) All that once was directly lived has become mere representation (Guy Debord Quotes) Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. (Guy Debord Quotes) Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity (Guy Debord Quotes) Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs (Guy Debord Quotes) No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon. (Guy Debord Quotes) ... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing (Guy Debord Quotes) It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak (Guy Debord Quotes) The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image (Guy Debord Quotes) The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life (Guy Debord Quotes) What appears is good; what is good appears (Guy Debord Quotes) Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other (Guy Debord Quotes) The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist (Guy Debord Quotes) 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 (Guy Debord Quotes) Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life (Guy Debord Quotes) Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea (Guy Debord Quotes) In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation (Guy Debord Quotes) There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter (Guy Debord Quotes) Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal (Guy Debord Quotes) Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit (Guy Debord Quotes) No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon (Guy Debord Quotes) 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 (Guy Debord Quotes) 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 (Guy Debord Quotes) An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves (Guy Debord Quotes) Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state’s monopoly of armed violence (Guy Debord Quotes) 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 from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him (Guy Debord Quotes) 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 (Guy Debord Quotes) Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink (Guy Debord Quotes) 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 (Guy Debord Quotes) The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images (Guy Debord Quotes)

1 2