Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

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

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

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

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

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.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.