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

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 Almost Forgotten Human Language is ‘Feeling.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value the other is social responsibility.

It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]

I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up. Vogue, what is that?

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don’t have to have everyone’s approval. You have God’s approval.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.