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Guy Debord Quotes

Guy Debord quotes

French Writer December 28, 1931 – November 30, 1994

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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. 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
The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him. Guy Debord
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. Guy Debord
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 shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative. 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
... 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. Guy Debord
Guy Debord quote: "Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. Guy Debord
Guy Debord quote: "I have written much less than most people who write; I have..."
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink. Guy Debord
Guy Debord quote: "None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by..."
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle Guy Debord
Guy Debord quote: "Never work."
Never work. Guy Debord
Guy Debord quote: "The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist. Guy Debord
Guy Debord quote: "The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now..."
The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones. Guy Debord
Guy Debord quote: "Basketball is not a collection of jams, but a social relation..."
Basketball is not a collection of jams, but a social relation among players, mediated by Michael Jordan. Guy Debord
Guy Debord quote: "Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist..."
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. Guy Debord

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