None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

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

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.

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

Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.