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

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.

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 spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

The first pet I remember was a cat called Baby. She would sleep with me, and I could call her from anywhere, and she would come running.

The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

I want [Donald] Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises.

My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.