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Best Quotes by Guy Debord (Top 10)
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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
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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.
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
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Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
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... 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.
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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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In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
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Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.
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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.
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More Guy Debord Quotes
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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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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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The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive"側 compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
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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.
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None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
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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 invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.
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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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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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