With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

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

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

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

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

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.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.