Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.

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.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.