Quote by Guy Debord
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

Other quotes by Guy Debord

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

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Consumerism
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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. – Guy Debord

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Ego
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an authors phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. – Guy Debord

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Plagiarism
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When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – Angela Carter

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. – R. D. Laing

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. – Robert Hewison

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A fool and his money are soon parted. – Thomas Tusser

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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. – Proverb

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I shall mention Nissl – Alois Alzheimer

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. – Anais Nin

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Dreams