The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

... 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.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

What appears is good; what is good appears.

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.