Quote by Jean Baudrillard
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the nega

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. – Jean Baudrillard

Other quotes by Jean Baudrillard

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Death
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth — either epileptic or dead. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Humanity
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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Terrorism
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Other Quotes from
Greatness & Great Things
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Max Beerbohm

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. – Pierre De Beaumarchais

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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. – J. Paul Getty

Category:
Men

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it – Lyman Beecher

Category:
Deception/Lying

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. – Margot Asquith

Category:
wedding

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. – Sir Winston Churchill

Category:
Idealism