... 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.

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.

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.

Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

Being comfortable is over-rated.

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me.

If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.