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

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.

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

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

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.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

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.