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

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

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

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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

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

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

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

... 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.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

I don't put myself under pressure.