Quotes by Guy Debord

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

“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,...”

“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 representa...”

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

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

“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.”

“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...”

“The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacles estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that ...”

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

“On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activit sociale effective.”

“Le spectacle est la reconstruction matrielle de l'illusion religieuse.”

“Le spectacle est le mauvais rve de la socit moderne enchane, qui n'exprime finalement que son dsir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.”

“Partout o il y a reprsentation indpendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.”

“Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivit moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indfiniment dans sa propre gloire.”

“Il est ce qui chappe l'activit des hommes, la reconsidration et la correction de leur uvre.”

“Le spectacle est la principale production de la socit actuelle.”

“Le but n'est rien, le dveloppement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir rien d'autre qu' lui-mme.”

“Dont tout avoir effectif doit tirer son prestige immdiat et sa fonction dernire.”

“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”

“The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that sh...”