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The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. — Guy Debord

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. — Guy Debord

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation. — Guy Debord

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. — Guy Debord

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. — 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. — Guy Debord

Conversely, real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle, and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it. — Guy Debord

Basketball is not a collection of jams, but a social relation among players, mediated by Michael Jordan. — Guy Debord

What appears is good; what is good appears. — Guy Debord

The spectacle thus unites what is separate, but it unites it only in its separateness. — Guy Debord

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation. — Guy Debord

The power to homogenize is the heavy artillery that has battered down all Chinese walls. — Guy Debord

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle — 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

Art ... can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations. — Guy Debord

We still have some time to take advantage of the fact that radio and television stations are not yet guarded by the army. — Guy Debord

But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane. — Guy Debord

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist. — Guy Debord

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. — Guy Debord

I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink. — Guy Debord

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it — Guy Debord

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living. — Guy Debord

So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation. — Guy Debord

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. — Guy Debord

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. — Guy Debord

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image. — Guy Debord

The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living. — Guy Debord

The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones. — Guy Debord

The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life. — Guy Debord

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. — Guy Debord

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior. — Guy Debord

I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers. — Guy Debord

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity — Guy Debord