Famous Quotes by Guy Debord

“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”

Guy Debord

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

Guy Debord

“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

“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

“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

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

Guy Debord

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

Guy Debord

“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

“Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.”

Guy Debord

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

Guy Debord

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

Guy Debord

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

Guy Debord

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

Guy Debord

“Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.”

Guy Debord

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

Guy Debord

“Dont tout «avoir» effectif doit tirer son prestige immédiat et sa fonction dernière.”

Guy Debord

“Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre.”

Guy Debord