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

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

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

I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

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

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.