Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

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

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

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