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

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.

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

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

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.

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