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Jean Baudrillard Quotes

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? Picture Quote #1

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors Picture Quote #1

Deep down, the US, with it's space, it's technological refinement, it's bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society Picture Quote #1

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it Picture Quote #1

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world Picture Quote #1

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization Picture Quote #1

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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real Picture Quote #1

The close up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom in, takes on a sexual value Picture Quote #1

And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret - the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know Picture Quote #1

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the empire, but ours: the desert of the real itself Picture Quote #1

For it is with the same imperialism that present day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models Picture Quote #1

One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real Picture Quote #1

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If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment Picture Quote #1

So-called realist photography does not capture the what is. Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example Picture Quote #1

Here in the U. S, culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers Picture Quote #1

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others Picture Quote #1

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing Picture Quote #1

Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent Picture Quote #1

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There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together Picture Quote #1

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these Picture Quote #1

It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality Picture Quote #1

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination Picture Quote #1

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened Picture Quote #1

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves Picture Quote #1

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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated Picture Quote #1

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity Picture Quote #1

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning Picture Quote #1

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him Picture Quote #1

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence Picture Quote #1

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it Picture Quote #1

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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Deep down, the US, with it's space, it's technological refinement, it's bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) The close up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom in, takes on a sexual value (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret - the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the empire, but ours: the desert of the real itself (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) For it is with the same imperialism that present day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) So-called realist photography does not capture the what is. Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Here in the U. S, culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence (Jean Baudrillard Quotes) The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it (Jean Baudrillard Quotes)

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