 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. |
| Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. |
| Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. |
| Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. |
| 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. |
| Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. |
| 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. |
