What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

What appears is good; what is good appears.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

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